ROLLING THUNDER / CHIEF / MEDICINE MAN / OF THE / KIOWA NATION / IS HERE / TONIGHT / with his / Medicine & Vaudeville Co......

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$225 · Offered by Bartleby's Books · No longer available

Chicago, IL ? np, 1890 . Broadside, 12 x 4 1/2 in. approximately 40 lines of text, 200 words, illustrated with 2 portraits, one of Rolling Thunder and one of his wife and business manager. Known to his family as Belmont and to the public as Chief Rolling Thunder, Louis Belmont Newell was born around 1858 to Thomas Newell and Marie Parsons of Indian Island, Old Town, Maine. Newell appears to have married several times and his first daughter Blanche was born to

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