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...
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Various owners (dispersed). Collected in 1882 at Darlington, Indian Territory (Oklahoma) by Sallie C. Maffet.
Descendants of Maffet sold the manuscript at Sotheby's auction in New York in 1997.
Purchased at auction and offered to the public by Morning Star Gallery, Santa Fe NM.
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...
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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...
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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 ...
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Various owners (dispersed); Donald Ellis Gallery; José Bedia, Sotheby's, New York, December 4, 1997, Sale 7066, Lot 447; Collected at the Cheyenne and Arapaho Agency, Darlington, Indian Territory, Oklahoma, in 1882.
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.
Dog Soldier Ledger Book Collection (MSS #722), Colorado Historical Society, Denver, Colorado.
Ira W. LaMunyon, donated on November 30, 1903.
Previously known as the Summit Spring Sketchbook. Sketchbook captured by an American soldier during the 1869 Battle of Summit Springs, near Sterling, Color...
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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".
David Dunham, the prior owner's name, appears on the front and rear of this "Ornamental Penman's, Engravers, Sign Writers and Stonecutter's Pocket Book of Alphabets". Purchased in Pueblo, Colorado by Private Owner; purchased in 2012 by Plains Ledger Art Digital Publishing Project (PILA), Mandeville ...
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Donald Ellis Gallery Ltd, New York; Family of Colonel William T. Weisinger II by descent; Collected by Ezra Philetus Ewers, Captain 5th Infantry, probably from Cheyenne while he was stationed at Fort Keogh, MT between December, 1877 and 1884, when he resigned as Commander of Fort Keogh and temporari...
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Keeling Ledger Book, Nebraska State Historical Society (11310-55), is from the collection of William Henry Keeling of Falls City, NE. Major Keeling served with the Army in Montana in the 1860s. It is likely that the ledger book was collected at Camp Cooke, Montana in 1866-67.