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1.
Taking the back track : a dangerous neighborhood

Creator:
Cameron, James, 1817-1882, artist
Published / Created:
[1866]
Call Number:
BrSides Zc10 866ca
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image and text
Abstract:
Lithograph reproduces a painting by James Cameron that depicts a small party of trappers of with horses and with pack mules hiding near a rocky, tree-topped hill to avoid being seen by a large group of indigenous persons approaching them on horseback in the tall grass of the middle-ground
Description:
BEIN BrSides Zc10 866ca: On verso: Manuscript instructions for matting; manuscript notes: Sir John Hesketh Lethbridge from his dear son, "Albert." Ottawa, Canada West. Framed by W. Lee, Barnstaple, in 1871., Title from caption below image., Signature of Cameron within image., and Below image: Entered by act of Congress AD 1866 by Currier & Ives, in the clerk's office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of N.Y.
Publisher:
Published by Currier & Ives
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.) and Trappers
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Taking the back track : a dangerous neighborhood

2.
A parley : prepared for an emergency

Creator:
Cameron, John, approximately 1828- artist
Published / Created:
[1868]
Call Number:
BrSides Zc10 856ca
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image and text
Abstract:
Print by John Cameron depicts, in the left foreground, two trappers with horses and pack animals waiting and watching on guard; in the middle ground, a trapper and a Native American ride toward each other to talk; in the background, more Native Americans on horseback in the distance; mountains and sky in the top half of the image
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Below image: Entered by act of Congress A.D. 1868 by Currier & Ives, in the clerk's office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of N.Y.
Publisher:
Published by Currier & Ives
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.) and Great Plains
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Warfare, and Trappers
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A parley : prepared for an emergency

3.
Western life : the trapper

Creator:
Deas, Charles, 1818-1867, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1855]
Call Number:
WA Prints +189
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image and text
Abstract:
Print reproduces Charles Deas's 1844 oil painting, "Long Jakes, the Rocky Mountain Man." Print depicts a bearded male trapper on horseback; horse, black with white blaze on forehead, facing right, head turned down and toward viewer; trapper's body facing right, half-turned to center, with head turned back to left; wearing a red tunic, buskskins, moccasins, spurs, and hat; carrying long gun in his right hand, reins in his left; mountains and sky in background
Alternative Title:
Long Jakes, the Rocky Mountain Man
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Date from metadata for another instance (black and white) of this print held by the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas.
Publisher:
published by M. Knoedler, successor to Goupil & Co. and printed at J.H. Bufford's
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):
Trappers and Hunters
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Western life : the trapper

4.
Buffalo chase

Creator:
Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875, artist
Published / Created:
[1854]
Call Number:
WA Prints +70
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image and text
Abstract:
Reproduction of a painting by Seth Eastman that depicts in the foreground two Native Americans on horseback, one with a long gun, the other with bow and arrow, hunting buffalo. In the background, the scene is of the riverine plains. The upper three-quarters of the image are of sky
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Below image, centered: Pl. 9.
Publisher:
Lippincott, Grambo & Company
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):
American bison hunting and Indians of North America
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Buffalo chase

5.
Fort Defiance at Cañoncito Bonito, New Mexico: built in 1851-52

Creator:
Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875, artist
Published / Created:
[1854]
Call Number:
WA Prints +83
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image and text
Abstract:
Reproduction of a work by Seth Eastman from a sketch by J. H. Eaton. Depicts Fort Defiance as built in 1851-1852. In the foreground, Native Americans approach the fort in a line on horseback; within the fort, U.S. Army soldiers drill. The fort is at the foot of an escarpment. One-third of the image is of sky
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Below image, centered: Pl. 29.
Publisher:
Lippincott, Grambo & Company
Subject (Geographic):
Fort Defiance (Ariz.) and West (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Fort Defiance at Cañoncito Bonito, New Mexico: built in 1851-52

6.
Hunter dismounted

Creator:
Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875, artist
Published / Created:
[1854]
Call Number:
WA Prints +69
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image and text
Abstract:
Reproduction of a drawning by Seth Eastman that depicts in the foreground a European American on foot hunting buffalo with a long gun. The scene is of the rolling, grassy plains with bison in the distance. The upper two-thirds of the image are of sky
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Published by Lippincott, Grambo & Co.
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):
American bison hunting
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Hunter dismounted

7.
Hunting the buffalo in winter

Creator:
Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875, artist
Published / Created:
[1854]
Call Number:
WA Prints +68
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image and text
Abstract:
Reproduction of an oil painting by Seth Eastman that depicts two Native Americans on snowshoes hunting buffalo in a winter scene
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Below image, centered: Pl. 10.
Publisher:
Lippincott, Grambo & Company
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):
American bison hunting and Indians of North America
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Hunting the buffalo in winter

8.
Skinning the buffalo

Creator:
Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875, artist
Published / Created:
[1854]
Call Number:
WA Prints +71
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image and text
Abstract:
Reproduction of a drawing by Seth Eastman that depicts in the foreground two Native Americans, on foot with saddled horses nearby, skinning a buffalo. In the background, the scene is of the riverine plains and distant hill tops. The upper half of the image is of sky
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Below image, centered: Pl. 13.
Publisher:
Lippincott, Grambo & Company
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):
American bison hunting and Indians of North America
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Skinning the buffalo

9.
Herd on the move

Creator:
Hays, William Jacob, 1830-1875, artist
Published / Created:
[1862]
Call Number:
BrSides Zc10 866ha
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image and text
Abstract:
Print depicts a herd of bison on the Great Plains; several bison face the viewer in the foreground; grassland swells into low hills in middle-and back-ground; filled with bison; the top half of the image is sky
Description:
BEIN BrSides Zc10 862ha: State before title and imprint letters., Title and imprint from caption on another state of this print., Within image in lower left, signed: W.J. Hays, 1861., and Below image: Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1862, by W.J. Hays in the clerks office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York
Publisher:
Goupil & Co. and Printed by Endicott & Co.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Plains and West (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):
American bison
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Herd on the move

10.
The last shot

Creator:
Maurer, Louis, 1832-1932, artist
Published / Created:
[1858]
Call Number:
BrSides Zc10 858mb
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Print depicts an unhorsed trapper beside his fallen horse; he is shooting a dismounted indigenous man who has a tomahawk raised in his right hand as he approaches the trapper. In the background, two horses, one riderless, grassland and sky; a little less than half the print shows the partly cloudy sky
Description:
Title from printed caption below image. and Below image: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1858 by Currier & Ives, in the clerk's office of the District Court of the Southern Dist. of N.Y.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Currier & Ives
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America and Trappers
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The last shot

11.
The surprise

Creator:
Maurer, Louis, 1832-1932, artist
Published / Created:
[1858]
Call Number:
BrSides Zc10 858maz 01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Print depicts two white men pursuing an Indigenous man; all on horseback. In the foreground, one rider has tossed a lasso toward the Indigenous man
Description:
Title from printed caption. and Below image: Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1856 by Currier & Ives, in the clerk's office of the district court of the Southern District of New York.
Publisher:
Published by Currier & Ives
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The surprise

12.
The last war-whoop

Creator:
Maurer, Louis, 1832-1932, lithographer
Published / Created:
[c1856]
Call Number:
BrSides Zc10 856mc
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Print reproduces a painting by A.F. Tait that depicts a trapper on horseback holding a long gun, looking down at a Indigenous man who has been shot and unhorsed from his mount. The fallen man props himself up with one hand and raises his right hand to his mouth as he shouts. He wears a leather shirt, leggings and beaded moccasins. He is leaning on his bow and his shield. There is a spear on the ground in front of him. Other white men are in the background to the right looking back at others (Indigenous persons?) who are in the far distance further to the right
Description:
BEIN BrSides Zc10 856mc: On sheet 52 x 73 cm., Title from caption below image., After a painting by Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait that is the companian piece to "The pursuit.", and Copyright 1856 by N. Currier.
Publisher:
Published by N. Currier, 152 Nassau Street
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.) and Great Plains
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Violence against, Trappers, Frontier and pioneer life, and Wars
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The last war-whoop

13.
The pursuit

Creator:
Maurer, Louis, 1832-1932, lithographer
Published / Created:
[1856]
Call Number:
BrSides Zc10 856md
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Print reproduces a painting by A.F. Tait in a lithograph by Louis Maurer for Currier & Ives; it depicts trappers pursuing in combat Indigenous persons on horseback. In the foreground, one pair of riders; a trapper, on saddled roan mount, wearing hat and animal-skin clothing, aiming a pistol with his right hand; an Indigenous person, bareback on black horse, leaning to left side of mount, looking back, holding a spear in his right hand; in the mid-ground, more riders in thel tall grass; in the background, largely cloudy sky with a single bird in flight; a little less than half the print shows the sky
Description:
Title from printed caption below image. and Below image: Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1856 by N. Currier, in the clerk's office of the District Court of the Southern Distt. of N.Y.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Currier & Ives
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.) and Great Plains
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Violence against, Trappers, and Frontier and pioneer life
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The pursuit

14.
The smoke signal

Creator:
Remington, Frederic, 1861-1909, artist
Published / Created:
[1957]
Call Number:
WA Prints +219
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image and text
Abstract:
Print reproduces a 1905 painting by Remington called 'The smoke signal' that depicts three Crow Native American men with three horses, one roan, one black, and one white with a red right hand print (as a brand) on its left buttock and a bird's feather tied into its tail; two of the Crow men are dismounted, kneeling on the hill-side signalling with smoke
Publisher:
Reproduced by the Lakeside Press, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, Chicago by permission of the copyright owner, the Remington Art Memorial
Subject (Topic):
Crow Indians, Indians of North America, Great Plains, and West (U.S.)
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The smoke signal

15.
Photographs taken during construction of the Union Pacific Railroad [graphic].

Creator:
Russell, Andrew J.
Call Number:
ZZc10 864un
Image Count:
405
Description:
Accompanied by a box list. and Manuscript captions on mounts.
Subject (Geographic):
United States, West (U.S.), Utah, and Wyoming
Subject (Name):
Union Pacific Railroad Company
Subject (Topic):
Railroads
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Photographs taken during construction of the Union Pacific Railroad [graphic].

16.
Fight to the finish

Creator:
Schreyvogel, Charles, 1861-1912, artist
Published / Created:
[1912?]
Call Number:
WA Prints +216
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Reproduction of Charles Schreyvogel's oil painting "Fight to the finish." Depicts a scene of Native Americans on horseback. Two in close combat foregrounded. Others in background
Description:
BEIN WA Prints +216: Blind stamped in lower left corner: Copyright 1912 by Chs. Schreyvogel., Title from the oil painting on which the print is based., and In lower right corner of print, signed: Chas Schreyvogel copyright 1912.
Publisher:
Moffat, Yard and Company?
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.)
Subject (Name):
United States. Army
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America and War
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Fight to the finish

17.
Going for reinforcements

Creator:
Schreyvogel, Charles, 1861-1912, artist
Published / Created:
[1906?]
Call Number:
WA prints +214
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Reproduction of Charles Schreyvogel's oil painting "Going for reinforcements." Depicts a scene of battle between Native Americans and U.S. Army troops in the west in which two soldiers are galloping on horses away from Native Americans who are in pursuit
Description:
BEIN WA Print +214: In lower left corner of print, blind stamped: Copyright 1901 by Chs. Schreyvogel., Title from the oil painting on which the print is based., and Imprint devised by cataloger from an advertisement in Publishers’ Weekly (No. 1817; Nov. 24, 1906) for prints by Charles Schreyvogel of western frontier life by Moffat, Yard, & Company of New York.
Publisher:
Moffat, Yard and Company?
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.)
Subject (Name):
United States. Army.
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America and War
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Going for reinforcements

18.
How kola

Creator:
Schreyvogel, Charles, 1861-1912, artist
Published / Created:
[1906?]
Call Number:
WA Prints +212
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Reproduction of Charles Schreyvogel's oil painting "How kola." Depicts a scene of battle between Native Americans and U.S. Army troops. Troupers riding directly at viewer with a fallen Native American and horse about to be trampled by trouper on horseback in the foreground
Description:
Title from the oil painting on which the print is based., Imprint devised by cataloger from an advertisement in Publishers’ Weekly (No. 1817; Nov. 24, 1906) for prints by Charles Schreyvogel of western frontier life by Moffat, Yard, & Company of New York., and In hand at bottom left corner of print: Copyright 1901 by Chas Schreyvogel.
Publisher:
Moffat, Yard and Company?
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.)
Subject (Name):
United States. Army
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America and War
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > How kola

19.
In the canyon

Creator:
Schreyvogel, Charles, 1861-1912, artist
Published / Created:
[1912?]
Call Number:
WA Prints +217
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Reproduction of a Charles Schreyvogel oil painting. Depicts a two troopers in a narrow canyon; one on horseback, the other unmounted; pistols drawn, looking back at approaching riders
Description:
BEIN WA Prints +217: Blind stamped in lower left corner: Copyright 1912 by Chs. Schreyvogel., Title devised by cataloger., and In lower right corner of print: Chas Schreyvogel copyright 1912.
Publisher:
Moffat, Yard and Company?
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.)
Subject (Name):
United States. Army
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America and War
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > In the canyon

20.
My bunkie

Creator:
Schreyvogel, Charles, 1861-1912, artist
Published / Created:
[1906?]
Call Number:
WA Prints +215
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Reproduction of Charles Schreyvogel's oil painting "My bunkie." Depicts a scene of battle between Native Americans and U.S. Army troops. Three soldiers on horseback in foreground with one soldier being pulled up from the ground by another
Description:
Title from the oil painting on which the print is based., Imprint devised by cataloger from an advertisement in Publishers’ Weekly (No. 1817; Nov. 24, 1906) for prints by Charles Schreyvogel of western frontier life by Moffat, Yard, & Company of New York., and Text in lower left: copyrighted 99.
Publisher:
Moffat, Yard and Company
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.)
Subject (Name):
United States. Army
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America and War
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > My bunkie

21.
On the skirmish line

Creator:
Schreyvogel, Charles, 1861-1912, artist
Published / Created:
[1906?]
Call Number:
WA Prints +211
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Reproduction of Charles Schreyvogel's oil painting "On the skirmish line." Depicts a scene of battle between about a dozen Native Americans on horseback and a dozen U.S. Army troops on foot
Description:
BEIN WA Prints +211:, Title from the oil painting on which the print is based., Imprint devised by cataloger from an advertisement in Publishers’ Weekly (No. 1817; Nov. 24, 1906) for prints by Charles Schreyvogel of western frontier life by Moffat, Yard, & Company of New York., and Written in lower right corner of image: Copyright c. 1900. Hand printed in lower right corner of image: From painting owned by C. M. Butte Hoboken.
Publisher:
Moffat, Yard and Company?
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.)
Subject (Name):
United States. Army
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America and War
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > On the skirmish line

22.
The attackers

Creator:
Schreyvogel, Charles, 1861-1912, artist
Published / Created:
[1900?]
Call Number:
WA Prints +218
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Reproduction of oil painting by Charles Schreyvogel, The attackers. Depicts a scene of four Native Americans on horseback, one with a rifle held over his head, riding away from an attack
Description:
BEIN WA Prints +218: Blind stamped in lower left corner: Copyright 1900 by Theo. Seiz, N.Y. Hand written in lower left corner: Colored by W.W. Hall., Title based on title of original painting., and In lower left corner of print, signed: Chas Schreyvogel.
Publisher:
Theodore Seiz?
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.)
Subject (Name):
United States. Army
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America and War
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The attackers

23.
A check : keep your distance!

Creator:
Tait, Arthur Fitzwilliam, 1819-1905, artist
Published / Created:
[1853]
Call Number:
WA Prints +134
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image and text
Abstract:
Reproduction of 1852 painting by A.F. Tait that depicts two trappers, men of European descent, and four Native American men fighting on horseback on a plain with tall grass; one of the trappers in center foreground wears a buckskin fringed jacket, aims his rifle; the other trapper driving the pack animals away from the scene. The first trapper is shown with a percussion cap and ball rifle, steer powder horn, and an arrow lodged into his camp blanket. Native American men to right in middle ground are armed with bows and arrows. Top half of image is sky
Alternative Title:
Keep your distance
Description:
Below image: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1853, by N. Currier, in the Clerk’s Office of the District-Court of the Southern District of N.Y. and Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Published by N. Currier
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America and Wars
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A check : keep your distance!

24.
The prairie hunter : "one rubbed out"

Creator:
Tait, Arthur Fitzwilliam, 181901905, artist
Published / Created:
[1852]
Call Number:
WA Prints +136
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image and text
Abstract:
Print shows four Native American men on horseback chasing a trapper through tall grass, from left to right; one of the Native American men is falling off his horse; the trapper is looking back at them, and he appears to have just shot the falling Native American; more than half the image is sky
Alternative Title:
One rubbed out
Description:
Title from caption below image., Signature in reverse on print in lower right: O. Knirsch 1852., and Text below image: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1852 by N. Currier, in the clerk's office in the District Court of the Southern District of N.Y.
Publisher:
N. Currier
Subject (Geographic):
Great Plains and West (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America and First contact with Europeans
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The prairie hunter : "one rubbed out"