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The lifetime collection of author and photo historian, Jim Crain (1939-2025). The catalog is exclusively devoted to antique photography with an emphasis on the Old West, California, Texas, and Native Americana from 1840-1900.
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Lot 610

[DAKOTAS] "Views of Gen. Crook's Expedition and the Black Hills" Stereoview Grouping

Estimate: $750 - $1,500
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Lot of five (5) historic 1876 Indian War-related stereoviews from the Views of General Crook’s Expedition and the Black Hills series. Views include: 

 

1.) Gen. Custer’s Last Stand Looking Toward Ford and Village outdoor albumen stereoview. Yankton, Dakota Territory: S.J. Morrow, n.d. Publisher's imprint printed to mount recto. Typed identification pasted to mount verso. 

Rare early Morrow view of the Little Bighorn battlefield looking over bleached equine bones and high bluff terrain toward the Little Bighorn River valley and encampment site.

 

2.) Gen. Crook’s Cavalry Force in Formation Yankton, Dakota Territory: S.J. Morrow, n.d. Publisher's imprint printed to mount recto. Comprehensive series list pasted to mount verso. 

Expansive panoramic view showing mounted cavalry columns drawn up in extended double-rank tactical formation across an open prairie plain, with supply wagons and canvas tents arrayed in the distant background.

 

3.) Capt. Mills and Officers with Captured Sioux Pony Herd Yankton, Dakota Territory: S.J. Morrow, n.d. Publisher's imprint printed to mount recto. Comprehensive series list pasted to mount verso. 

Detailed field group portrait showing Capt. Anson Mills and officers of the Third U.S. Cavalry seated on an open grass slope with guidons and rifles, capturing the troops following the 9 September 1876 Battle of Slim Buttes.

 

4.) U.S. Cavalry Officers Posed on Rocky Outcrop (View 1) Yankton, Dakota Territory: S.J. Morrow, n.d. Publisher's imprint printed to mount recto. Comprehensive series list pasted to mount verso. 

Field view capturing officers in campaign dress, broad-brimmed felt hats, and service blouses reclining among large granite boulders and timbered hillsides during the expedition's passage through the Black Hills.

 

5.) U.S. Cavalry Officers Posed on Rocky Outcrop (View 2) Yankton, Dakota Territory: S.J. Morrow, n.d. Publisher's imprint printed to mount recto. Comprehensive series list pasted to mount verso. 

Companion field exposure showing an expanded company of officers taking a tactical rest, lounging along rocky tiers and pine embankments.

 

Stanley J. Morrow traveled directly with Brig. Gen. George Crook’s column during the closing weeks of the 1876 summer campaign against the Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne following the Little Bighorn disaster. Surviving Crook's grueling "Horsemeat March," Morrow produced the only comprehensive photographic record of the expedition in the field, documenting the exhausted soldiers, the immediate aftermath of the engagement at Slim Buttes, and early reconnaissance views of the Custer battlefield. Original Morrow expedition views remain among the most historically significant and sought-after photographic artifacts of the Plains Indian Wars.

 

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

Good to very good condition overall. The albumen prints retain strong tonal separation and sharp detail, displaying typical light age-toning, faint peripheral foxing, and minor edge scuffing consistent with typical handling.

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Jim Crain Collection.