Grouping of four (4) 1876 field photographs documenting the Big Horn and Yellowstone Expedition by Stanley J. Morrow, Yankton, Dakota Territory ca. 1877. Views include: 

1.) Cavalry Column Drawn up in Line of Battle outdoor albumen stereoview. Yankton, Dakota Territory: S.J. Morrow, n.d. Photographer's imprint and series identification printed to mount recto. Checklist label for "Views of Gen. Crook’s Expedition and the Black Hills" printed to mount verso. 

The image captures Crook’s mounted cavalry battalion arrayed across a sweeping plain with high rock-crested bluffs and timber in the background. 

2.) Soldiers Butchering an Abandoned Horse for Meat outdoor albumen stereoview. Yankton, Dakota Territory: S.J. Morrow, n.d. Photographer's imprint and series identification printed to mount recto. Multi-series checklist printed to mount verso. 

The stark, iconic image depicts a group of dismounted, gaunt cavalrymen skinning and butchering a fallen horse in an open field, visually encapsulating the harrowing conditions of Crook’s starvation march.

3.) Natural Rock Formation in the Black Hills outdoor albumen stereoview. Yankton, Dakota Territory: S.J. Morrow, n.d. Photographer's imprint and series identification printed to mount recto.

An excellent view of the natural landmarks encountered in the Black Hills of the Dakota Territory. 

4.) U.S. Officers Posed on Granite Boulders outdoor albumen stereoview. Yankton, Dakota Territory: S.J. Morrow, n.d. Photographer's imprint and series identification printed to mount recto. Checklist label for "Views of Gen. Crook’s Expedition and the Black Hills" printed to mount verso. 

An excellent view of officers and campaign scouts in slouch hats and campaign blouses resting on massive hillside rock formations during their march through the Black Hills.

Following the defeat at the Little Bighorn, Brig. Gen. George Crook pursued combined Lakota and Cheyenne bands across eastern Montana and Dakota Territory. Beset by unceasing autumn rains, mud, and collapsed supply lines, the column ran entirely out of rations, forcing soldiers to eat wild plums and the flesh of their own dying cavalry horses and pack mules. Morrow’s unvarnished documentary photograph of troopers carving horsemeat stands as one of the most raw and enduring visual documents of the Indian Wars.

[Stereoview, Stereocard, S.J. Morrow, Stanley J Morrow, Yankton Dakota Territory, General George Crook, Crook's Expedition, Big Horn and Yellowstone Expedition, Horsemeat March, Starvation March, Slim Buttes, Third U.S. Cavalry, Fifth U.S. Cavalry, Butchering Horse, Great Sioux War, Plains Indian Wars, Black Hills, Western Americana, 19th Century Photography]

Good to very good condition overall. The albumen prints exhibit good tonal definition and clarity, with scattered light foxing, minor surface soil, and typical edge and corner wear to the card mounts.