A Lakota attack on a U.S. Army tent bivouac
Ethnographic Notes
A Lakota attack on a U.S. Army tent bivouac. This undoubtedly occurred during the late-summer of 1865, and the enemies are soldiers of General Patrick Connor's Powder River Expedition. Sitting Bull crawls within arrow range of one of Connor's Parrott guns, while two teams of artillerymen lob exploding case shells into the Lakota positions. A close review of the Army reports ought to pinpoint the exact occasion and date.
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Plate No: 10
Page No: 20
Media: lead pencil, crayon, and ink
Dimensions: 9 1/2 inches by 7 1/2 inches
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Essays
- Red Cloud Agency by Nebraska State Historical Society
- Facsimile of Sitting Bull's Pictorial Autobiography in Smithsonian Museum, Washington by THE DAILY GRAPHIC: NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1876
- Sitting Bull - Saville Ledger - Oglala Lakota by Ross Frank
- Saville Investigation by THE DAILY GRAPHIC: NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1876
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