[Cross, William R. (photographer)]: [Scott, George W. (photographer)]:

$2,750 · Offered by William Reese Company · No longer available

[SIX CABINET CARD PHOTOGRAPHS OF HUNKPAPA LAKOTA SIOUX PRISONERS FROM SITTING BULL'S BAND FOLLOWING THEIR SURRENDER AFTER LITTLE BIGHORN]. A collection of six cabinet card photographs of Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux prisoners following the Battle of the Little Bighorn, including Sitting Bull, Steps (including two duplicates), and One Bull, photographed by William R. Cross for Bailey, Dix and Mead, as well as a copy of a cabinet card photograph of Chief Gall, a Hunkpapa Sioux of Sitting Bull's band, originally photographed by George W. Scott. Following the Battle of the Little Big Horn, the Hunkpapa Lakota led by Sitting Bull and Chief Gall fled to Canada to evade U.S. military pursuit; after several years, they eventually surrendered and were relocated to Fort Randall, near the Standing Rock reservation in present-day South Dakota, where they were held before being relocated to the reservation at Fort Yates. The capture of Sitting Bull caused a great deal of excitement, during which Joshua Bradford Bailey, Dr. George P. Dix, and John L. Mead, local civilians who lived close to Fort Randall, hoped to make a quick profit by commissioning local photographer William Cross to take a series of twenty-four photographs of the prisoners and their life at Fort Randall. These "could be sold to local inhabitants, potential settlers from the East, or visitors who passed through on the newly completed railroad line. After this project, Bailey, Dix & Mead never published another photograph" (Goody

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