Private owner. Provenance provided by 3rd generation descendants of Charles A. Wilkins on a typed note taped to the inside front cover:

"The attached book is a book given to George Wilkins' father Charles A. Wilkins, by Chief Sitting Bull, while said Chief was a prisoner under C. A. Wilkins' ter... Read More

Various owners (dispersed); Donald Ellis Gallery; Hal Walker Collection; Guernsey’s, Harrisburg, PA, July 7, 2013; private collection; Will Channing Auction, Santa Fe, August 8-10, 1991; ... ; W. H. Goodwyn.

NYT (8/2/1991): “Will Channing, the auctioneer, said in a telephone interview from... Read More

Various owners (dispersed); H. Malcolm Grimmer Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico; private owner; private purchase from a local court house yard sale/auction in Amidon, North Dakota in 1985;

This remarkable Lakota ledger book was part of a private purchase from a local court house auction and sale in ... Read More

• Roy Oswalt, Ancient Arts Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ, sold around 2008-2010. • Michael D. Higgins, Antique Indian Art, Tucson, AZ. • Purchased with funds from Plains Indian Ledger Art Project (PILA) in Santa Fe, NM, 8/23/2023.

Inscription on Title Page: Some of the chief exploits of "Scares the Enemy", an untutored son of the prairie, as drawn by himself in the Lawrence county jail, while confined there during the fall and winter of [18]82 and winter of '83. While so confined he was awaiting trial on the charge of shootin... Read More

The Sweetwater ledger book is part of the Charles R. Howell Collection. Howell lived near the Rosebud Reservation for a number of years before moving to the upper Green River area. The drawings are part of a large collection of Sioux items Howell first donated to the City of Green River. In 1967, th... Read More

Ledger inscribed by "M.E. Meade", believed to have been Mary Eliza Mead, whose husband operated a trading post on the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota during the 1880s and early 1890s. Marcy Burns, American Indian Art, Glendate, PA Gallery West, Tucson, AZ Gary Henderschott Collection Bradle... Read More