SCOUTS & FRONTIERSMAN Photos

KANSAS SCOUT WITH BOWIE KNIFE, HOLSTERED PISTOL AND WINCHESTER 1880s. Great cabinet card studio image of a Kansas scout with all the accoutrements: fringed jacket, Bowie knife, cartridge belt, holstered pistol, Winchester and knee-high boots. The photographer of this great image is C. E. Koentz, Onaga, Kansas.



2 nd Cavalry Scout. C1870s
Fringed and beaded jacket,Comanche beaded knife case, buckskin fringed rifle case.

Kaytah and Naatehn as old men in Geronimo's autobiography

Al Sieber,1877

Early Scout Shirt

Two Armed Full Dressed Scouts ca 1880s-1890s


Cabinet Card Photograph of Great Armed Scout from Colorado 1880s


B. K. O'Dwyer - Scout, Wagon Master, & Saloon Keeper ca 1870s

Col.J.Crawford,US cavalry scout,1883

Bib Front Buckskin shirt c 1880s

Major Jas A.Howard,Fort Meade,South Dakota,1883

Circa. 1868-71 photograph of Pawnee Scouts by William Henry Jackson. (First from right) 'Man who left his enemy lying in the water', Raruur tkahaareesaaru 'His Chiefly Night', or 'Night Chief' Ticteesaaraahki' 'One who strikes the chiefs first' Tirawa t Reesa ru' 'Sky Chief' Standing, Baptiste Bayhylle, Resa ru' Siriite‚riku "The Heavens See Him as a Chief", Pawnee/French interpreter. Smithsonian Institution, National Anthropological Archives, 1297.



William Henry Jackson

Custer 's Crow Indian Scouts

Al Seiber with group of Indian scouts, c. 1877

"Muggins" Taylor, le scout qui découvrit le massacre de Custer et qui en donna en premier la nouvelle à l'armée.



imprint of Palmer, Butte, Montana; circa 1900, signed in negative "W.H. Taylor, Scout." An aged Taylor stands in buckskins with his Sharp's carbine. This is H.M. Taylor, a scout with General Alfred Terry who discovered the Custer massacre and was the first to deliver the news to the Army.

J.W. Crawford. Capt. Jack. Feb. 9, 1881. Jack holds a piece of ore and is armed with a M1876 Winchester. A fine image of the Poet Scout.

Apaches scouts c1877

Cabinet Card by Stacy of Frontier Scout John Y. Nelson,(1826-1903) dressed in Western garb smoking a pipe and posing with a lever-action Winchester. Nelson had a long and fabled career on the Plains. Leaving his native West Virginia he was on the Plains by 1844, living for a time with Spotted Tail's band of Brule Sioux, before signing on for $40 a month acting as a guide for Brigham Young in 1847. He was with the burial party at the Mountain Meadow Massacre, and spent a number of years working cattle in Colorado and Utah. He helped build the buildings at the Pine Ridge Reservation and served there for a time as chief of police. He claimed to have met Buffalo Bill in 1857, and became a fast friend. Cody referred to Nelson as "good fellow though as a liar he had few equals and no superiors." He joined Cody's "Wild West" in 1884 and was with the outfit for many years

John Durfey, Frontiersman and Indian Fighter

A fine image of Captain Jack, wearing a jacket trimmed in leopard fur, his GAR medals clearly visible hanging from the front, holding an 1873 Winchester Rifle, and wearing an 1878 Colt Double Action Revolver and hunting knife in his belt, with Werner & Kern / NY imprint below image.


Frontiersman with Winchester and Bowie Knife


A Frontiersman,dressed in Western-style garb holding a percussion shotgun.

Anonymous image of a young frontiersman, dressed in buckskin.


Armed Frontiersman, wearing a buckskin jacket, broad-brimmed hat, holster belt with a revolver and a percussion long rifle.


Frontiersman in Buckskin Shirt Holding a '66 Winchester,and wearing a cartridge belt. The sling of the rifle clearly visible.

Montana Frontiersman.
Image shows a man standing against a forest backdrop wearing a bullet belt and casually leaning on his rifle.


A Western Scout, cabinet card of an unidentified young man dressed in buckskin jacket and pants with broad-brimmed felt hat and wearing a pair of Plains beaded moccasins and a Plains beaded knife sheath with knife. He holds a Colt-type pocket revolver in his hand and wears a U.S. Army cartridge belt and plate.


A young scout in high boots, buckskin jacket leaning on a Winchester lever action rifle.

Two Colorado Frontiersmen, 1884.


circa 1880s with inked inscription on verso Oklahoma Frank Sargent. Capt. Frank Sargent Oklahoma City, Indian Territory. Frank is armed with a pearl-handled single-action and M1873 Winchester


Colorado Territory Frontiersman,full length studio portrait of young man in broad brimmed hat, vest and buckskin jacket trimmed in beaver or buffalo fur.

Western Scout, He wears buckskins, with a fancy vest, and at his neck a bold bandanna. Sharpshooter pins are clearly visible on his lapels. He wears a holstered single-action, and holds his lever-action rifle


Frontiersman


Cavalry Scout, with his broad brimmed hat in hand and a shotgun in right, wearing cavalry type boots and gun belt with holstered revolver and ammo for trapdoor Springfield rifle.