Impressive group of ten c. 1890-1910 cabinet cards featuring Native American subjects. Many are stamped with the names and locations of photographers who worked in Fort Sill, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), and Pierre, Dakota (now South Dakota.) Almost all are neatly inscribed with information about the subjects and presentation details from the 1930s. 

Subjects include White Swan, Kee-no, Qui-nino, Wild Horse, Ki-Chi-Da, and Can-Cha-Na-Ve-Ah, all of the  Comanche or Cheyenne tribes.

The lone non-Native subject is identified as "Comanche" Jack Stilwell.  A period inscription on the reverse of this card reads, "Scout. Distinguished Gent. Forsyth's 7-days fight with 1000 Sioux and Cheyenne at Beecher's Island. Republican River, Kansas 1868." Stilwell, a US Marshall in Oklahoma during the "Old West" period, served as a civilian scout for the Army and, when just a teenager, famously crawled through the sagebrush for help after a party of men who were trapped by Cheyenne warriors on a sandbar in the Republican River. Perhaps just as notable was Jack's brother, Frank. The younger Stilwell brother was famously gunned down by Wyatt Earp, who suspected Frank of killing his own brother, Morgan Earp.

All ten images remain in excellent condition, making this a top-notch collection of Native American and Wild West-related cabinet cards. 

[Civil War, Union, Confederate] [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] [Native Americans, Native American History, American Indian, Indian History] [Western Americana, Western History, Western Expansion, Wild West]