Grouping of seven (7) albumen print stereoviews of California-related images by Carleton Watkins (1829-1916). 

Each is mounted on publisher's cardstock mounts with view title, series title ("Watkins' Pacific Coast"), Watkins' San Francisco publisher imprints, and copyright statements. Versos retain period and collector pencil inventory markings. Views include:

1. View of Lava Bed, looking South-east, showing the spot where the Modocs camped, and to the right the trail by which they escaped from their stronghold.

Detailed tactical landscape documenting the Modoc evacuation route.

2. At the Rancheria, Mendocino County, California.

Exceptional ethnographic field view from Watkins' earlier series capturing traditional conical redwood-bark dwellings (kot) and Pomo inhabitants in northern California.

3. Headquarters on Tule Lake, taken N.E. from Bluff.

Panoramic high-angle view over the sprawling rows of U.S. Army wall tents and supply corrals at the Tule Lake field headquarters.

4. Lava Bed, Looking South East.

Sweeping topographical view of the jagged volcanic ridges and basalt tablelands.

5. Donald McKay, Captain of the Warm Spring Indians. Bust-view studio portrait.

Intimate studio bust portrait of the famed scout leader and frontiersman Donald McKay (1836-1899) in a checked trade shirt.

6. Lava Bed, looking East, showing Soldiers' Cemetery.

Somber landscape capturing the timber-bordered enclosure of the battlefield cemetery established for fallen U.S. soldiers in the Lava Beds.

7. Group of Warm Spring Indians.

Armed field portrait of the Warm Springs Indian Scout company assembled in ranks with rifles and broad-brimmed hats along the shore of Tule Lake.

Highlighting this exceptional assemblage are two of Watkins' most celebrated Indigenous portraits: the intimate portrait of mixed-race scout leader Donald McKay and the famous armed field portrait of the U.S. Army's Warm Springs Indian Scouts, whose tracking abilities ultimately broke the Modoc stronghold. Paired with cornerstone views of the Tule Lake field command post, the soldiers' cemetery, tactical terrain, and an ethnographic study of a Mendocino County Pomo rancheria, this collection provides an extraordinary visual record of California's late-19th-century frontier conflicts and Indigenous heritage.

[Modoc War, Modoc Nation, Donald McKay, Warm Springs Scouts, Indian Scouts, Tule Lake, Lava Beds, Soldiers Cemetery, Pomo Indians, Rancheria, Mendocino County, Indian Wars, US Army, Northern California, American West] [Photography, Early Photography, Historic Photography, Stereoviews, Stereographs, Albumen Prints, Carleton Watkins, Carleton E. Watkins, Watkins Pacific Coast, Frontier Photographers, Military Photography, Native American Portraiture]

Strong condition overall. The prints are well-preserved and the mounts show only minor edge rubbing and light corner softening consistent with age.