Stuhr Museum News By Karen M. Keehr, Curator of Research Stur Museum of the Prarie Pioneer, Grand Island, Nebraska

At the encouragement of his father, Charles W. Jackson began a journal in 1867 as a way to improve his writing and get a better paying job. Jackson lived the typical life of a youn... Read More

Bad Eye, Tan-na-ti (Bird Chief) led a Kiowa raid on November 21, 1873, on the North Fork of the Canadian River below Camp Supply and near Cottonwood Grove, Indian Territory (later Oklahoma). Six of the war party were sent to Fort Marion in 1875: Bad Eye, Bear in the Clouds, Wohaw, Woman's Heart, Do... Read More

Various owners (dispersed); Donald Ellis Gallery; Bonham's, "From the Great Lakes to the Rio Grande: the Collection of Roy Robinson, Los Angeles, October 26-27, 2023, Lot 22; Roy Robinson Collection (1882-1970), acquired from the estate of Evangeline Marrs Simpson Whipplee in 1933; Evangeline Marrs... Read More

Frontier Army Museum, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, donated July 21, 1966. Catalog lists as "Album of drawing by Cheyenne Indians. Made for Capt. B. M. Custer" after caption on drawing: "Drawn by Cheyenne Indians 1881 for Capt. B.M. Custer U.S.A."

Drawings principally by Black Horse, c. 1879-1885, depicting Northern Cheyenne events beginning around 1865. Likely acquired through the post trader at Fort Keogh, Montana. Carl Denzel Collection. Purchased by Plains Ledger Art Digital Publishing Project (PILA), Department of Ethnic Studies, UC San ... Read More

On cover sheet, in pencil: "Drawn by Buffalo Meat (Cheyenne Hostage), Marion, Fla. Nov. 1876; presented by Capt. Rich'd. H. Pratt, 10th U.S. Cavalry, April 1877."

The Old Print Shop, Inc., New York, New York, until 1965; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas

Captions written by Ca... Read More

Donald Ellis Gallery Ltd.; Private Collection; Sotheby's Arts of the American West, New York, May 22, 2013; Edward and Dillie Thomas, The Giberson Family, Louis and Sarah Giberson; Ambrose Asher; gift from Cheyenne Bowstring Society chief, perhaps Lame Bull.

Acquired by the Dr. and Mrs. Robert B. Pamplin, Jr. Collection of American Indian Art. Purchased at auction by Morning Star Gallery (and others) at auction: Sotheby's, Fine American Indian Art, New York, May 24, 1994, lot 196, "From an Indiana private collection".