Four (4) albumen stereoviews on publisher's yellow card mounts. Miles City, Montana Territory: L.A. Huffman, ca. early 1880s. Printed publisher's margin imprints and series titles. Modern notations on verso, including collector's slip identifying photographer.

A remarkable group of early Montana frontier stereoviews captured by premier frontier photographer Laton Alton Huffman (1854-1931). Operating out of Fort Keogh and Miles City beginning in 1879, Huffman documented the closing days of the open plains, capturing the near-extinction of the northern bison herds and early sporting expeditions through the Yellowstone and Big Horn wilderness.

The lot includes:

1. 188—"5 Minutes' Work:" Cows & Spikes.  A stark field view depicting multiple slaughtered cows carcasses strewn across a vast, barren plain, with a solitary horse and rifle standing over the kill in the distance.

2. 72—"Our Outfit" Big Horn Mt.  A compelling timberline camp view depicting pack horses heavily laden with field provisions navigating a steep forest trail.

3. 69—"His First Grizzly."  An exceptional hunting view showing a bearded rifleman seated beside a massive, slain grizzly bear on the prairie.

4. 70—Skinning the Grizzly. A rare field view documenting two hunters butchering the massive bear carcass; period/modern pencil notations and an attached collector's slip on verso identify the hunter actively skinning at right as Huffman himself ("L.A. Huffman himself (right) / See Huffman book").

All four mounts bear Huffman’s early territory margin stamps: "L.A. Huffman, publisher, Miles City, Montana." Surviving stereoviews from Huffman's earliest field expeditions rank among the most desirable and historically important photographic records of the Montana frontier.

[Photography, Early Photography, Historic Photography, Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes, Tintypes, Cased Images, Union Cases, Albumen Photographs, CDVs, Carte de Visites, Cartes de Visite, Carte-de-visite, Cartes-de-visite, CDV, Cabinet Cards, Stereoviews, Stereocards] [Western Americana, Western History, Western Expansion, Wild West]

Very good overall. The albumen prints retain strong contrast and fine sharpness across the foreground details, with light age-appropriate fading at the extreme edges and minor pinpoint handling marks. The yellow card mounts remain flat and structurally sound.