SCOUTS & FRONTIERSMAN Photos

Perhaps no other figure is illustrative of the wild days in Deadwood in the 1870s than Martha Jane "Calamity" Cannary (1852-1903). Her history is shrouded in uncertainty and myth. As early as 1864 her family was living in Virginia City, Nevada, and by the late 1860s she was apparently a consort of various soldiers at Forts Jim Bridger and Steel in Montana Territory. She had a propensity for dressing in men's clothes, and may have been with Crook at the Battle of Slim Buttes in 1876, dressed as such. She apparently accompanied Wild Bill Hickok, Colorado Charlie Utter and Bloody Dick Seymour when they arrived in Deadwood in June or July of 1876, and was there when Bill was murdered. By all accounts, she was a profane, alcoholic harlot, but with many likeable qualities. While never married to Hickok, she was buried next to him in Deadwood.


Photograph of Calamity Jane,with imprint of Locke and Peterson, Deadwood, S.D. and titled in the negative Calamity Jane, Gen Crook's Scout.

1870s Tintype of Indian Scout


Cabinet Card of Curley, Crow Scout, with printed applied caption, Curley, General Custer's Scout, and only Survivor of that Horrible Massacre of 1876, and imprint for Barry?s Bismarck, Dakota studio.

Ned Buntline, Buffalo Bill and Texas Jack, original negative taken by Rockwood or Gurney of New York City during an 1873 or 1874 production of The Scouts of the Prairie.

Portrait of Al Sieber, Head Scout, with Blanket 1886

Apache scouts drilling with rifles, Fort Wingate, New Mexico- ca 1880s


Oliver, Sargent of Scouts and Interpreter in Uniform


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Two frontiersmen in beaded buckskin from the northwest tribes, ca 1880.

Scout jacket, c 1880

c 1880s

Scout Montain Charlie

A group of Custer's scouts on the trail 1870's

Standing - Scout Charles Stobie on the left and Mtn Man/Guide/Jim Baker on the right - 1860's

Drannan, Capt. William F. Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains; or, Last Voice from the Plains. An Authentic Record of a Life Time of Hunting, Trapping, Scouting and Indian Fighting in the Far West. By Capt. William F. Drannan, Who Went on the Plains When Fifteen Years Old. Copiously Illustrated by H.S. DeLay. And Many Reproductions from Photographs. Chicago: Thos. W. Jackson Publishing Company. 1900.