7.5 x 5.75" albumen image, mounted on 13.5 x 10.5" board, with print bordered in blue ink, and with calligraphic title Scalped Hunter. An exceptional photograph taken not long after the young Will Soule arrived at Fort Sill and began taking photographs. This dramatic photograph was circulated widely in the East thanks to an engraving in Harper's Weekly for January 19, 1869. The caption of the engraving tells the story: On December 7, Mr. Ralph Morrison, a hunter, was scalped and murdered by the Cheyenne within a mile of Fort Dodge. Wm. S. Soule, an amateur photographer [and] chief clerk in Tappin's Trading Company, took the picture. The officer is Lt. Reade, 3rd Infantry. John O. Austin, Chief of Scouts is on the right. The photo was taken within an hour of the killing. Framed together with a cartes de visite of newly-minted 2nd Lt. Phillip Reade in his West Point uniform, inscribed on the verso, and dated January, 1865. An extraordinary, and iconic, image of the conflict between the 7th U.S. cavalry and the Cheyenne and Arapahoe. Provenance: The William O Taylor Collection; The Alexander Acevedo Collection; Butterfield's and Butterfield's, April 4, 1995, Lot 47; The Mike Butler Collection of Western Photography Condition: EXC, with rich tonality.
7.5 x 5.75" albumen image, mounted on 13.5 x 10.5" board, with print bordered in blue ink, and with calligraphic title Scalped Hunter. An exceptional photograph taken not long after the young Will Soule arrived at Fort Sill and began taking photographs. This dramatic photograph was circulated widely in the East thanks to an engraving in Harper's Weekly for January 19, 1869. The caption of the engraving tells the story: On December 7, Mr. Ralph Morrison, a hunter, was scalped and murdered by the Cheyenne within a mile of Fort Dodge. Wm. S. Soule, an amateur photographer [and] chief clerk in Tappin's Trading Company, took the picture. The officer is Lt. Reade, 3rd Infantry. John O. Austin, Chief of Scouts is on the right. The photo was taken within an hour of the killing. Framed together with a cartes de visite of newly-minted 2nd Lt. Phillip Reade in his West Point uniform, inscribed on the verso, and dated January, 1865. An extraordinary, and iconic, image of the conflict between the 7th U.S. cavalry and the Cheyenne and Arapahoe. Provenance: The William O Taylor Collection; The Alexander Acevedo Collection; Butterfield's and Butterfield's, April 4, 1995, Lot 47; The Mike Butler Collection of Western Photography Condition: EXC, with rich tonality.
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