SCOUTS & FRONTIERSMAN Photos

Scout With Winchester Carbine , Large Bowie & Wearing Tam,standing with his saddle ring carbine resting on his hip, wearing a tam hat with cockade at side, buckskin jacket, leather belt with holstered revolver and an ebony gripped dirk in steel or leather sheath.


Scout Buckskin Jacket



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Jim Beaver,scout

Tintype of a Buckskin Clad Man,anonymous portrait of young western hunter holding broad-brimmed hat in hand and wearing Western Cree-style beaded moccasins with Union officers belt and beaded knife sheath at belt, standing on large Navajo rug.


Tintype of Western Hunter,dressed in full buckskin outfit with broad brimmed hat and holding a half stock percussion rifle.

Buffalo Bill Standing with Percussion Rifle

Texas Jack Omohundro,1873




Texas Jack Omohundro,1875




Ned Butline,Buffalo Bill,Texas Jack,1873

Hank Wormwood,scout for Crook,1876

he 1866 congressional legislation authorizing Indian scout enlistment set the pay at 40¢ a day if they used their own mounts and horse equipage. The Army would provide the scouts with government firearms, rations and other issue items, as well as the “pay and allowances of cavalry soldiers....” Here, a young Navajo scout, surrounded by 6th U.S. Cavalry troopers, is earning his pay and enjoying a hunting outing, both bonuses for his services.
– Courtesy Christian Barthelmess Family –




From left) White Mountain scouts Das Luca, Skro-Kit and Shus-El-Day pose in their finery that would be put aside for more basic outfits during the campaign.
– Courtesy Arizona State Museum –



Cut-Mouth Moses (seated in the center) was first sergeant of Apache Company A when this photograph was taken in the early 1880s. During the ill-fated Cibecue affair in 1881, he remained loyal when others in his unit mutinied.
- Courtesy National Archives –



Al Sieber “Chief of Scouts” surrounded by some of his intrepid Apaches.


In 1885, ten years after Alchesay received his medal of honor for fighting ferociously under George Crook during the 1872-73 Tonto Basin campaigns, Crook’s trusted scout stands (at right) with another Apache scout, Dutchy (at left), flanking Crook. The brigadier general wears his trademark summer helmet and is astride one of his favorite mules, which he named Apache. Crook was a major proponent of the use of Indian scouts from the experience he garnered in the Pacific Northwest at the end of the Civil War.


George Little Bear, an Arapaho, served at Fort Reno as Company A’s trumpeter, indicative of the increasing late 19th-century efforts to train Indians along the lines of Regular Army soldiers.


Captain Emmett Crawford’s Apache scouts who followed him deep into Mexico in pursuit of Geronimo. Yet distrust of the Apaches was so deeply rooted in the Mexican troops that volunteers from Chihuahua attacked Crawford and his men in November 1885, resulting in Crawford’s death.



On November 12, 1898, Company A’s Apache scouts gathered after a Sunday morning inspection at Camp Grant, Arizona Territory.


First Sergeant Cut-Mouth Moses (seated), who evidently has borrowed the Medal of Honor he is wearing from fellow scout Sgt. Rowdy. The latter man received this recognition for his action in pursuit of the Apache Kid and his band in 1890. Shown in inset is a close-up of a first pattern (1862-96) Medal of Honor.

Peaches Genl Crooks guide into Mexico on verso; titled in negative. Peaches holds a Frank Wesson rifle and carries an 1875 Remington revolver in his holster. Peaches, General Crook's most distinguished scout, served during the campaign of 1883 leading U.S. troops to the Chiricahua hideout in the Sierra Madre mountains of Mexico.

Apache were employed by the U.S. Army to serve as scouts in the search for Geronimo and his Chiricahua followers. Malte and Gud-i-ze-ah were likely part of that group. Gud-i-ze-ah is wearing a jacket decorated with beadwork and metal disks, the hide rubbed overall with yellow ocher.


General George Crook and Apache Scouts

Frank Grouard, U.S. Scout, As a young man Grouard (1850-1905) was captured by the Sioux and spent six years among them, learning their language and customs. After leaving the Sioux he hired on with Crook in 1876, serving as a scout and interpreter. He was a major participant in the Rosebud campaign, and saw action in the Battle of the Rosebud, on the Big Horn and Yellowstone Expeditions, and at the Battle of Slim Buttes. He was assigned to the Pine Ridge Reservation during the Ghost Dance uprising and was present at the Wounded Knee fiasco.

Johnnie Bruguiere, Indian Scout, also known as "Big Leggins" posed with his pet wolf, dressed in buckskins and cradling a Sharp's carbine. A cartridge belt visible at his waist.

Bruguiere (1849-1898) was the son of a French father and Sioux mother. During the early 1870s he worked for his father freighting to posts on the upper Missouri. By 1875 he was a scout and interpreter posted at the Standing Rock Agency in Dakota Territory. In that same year he killed a man during a brawl and fled to the Black Hills where he lived with Sitting Bull and served as his "private secretary." After the battle of the Little Bighorn he served with Nelson Miles at Fort Peck, Montana, and, according to Miles was "the man to whom I am largely indebted for the success of my campaign against Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull." Miles hired him again in 1890 to serve as his personal interpreter during the Ghost Dance craze. He was later posted to an Indian Agency where he was killed by an unknown assailant.

Apaches Scouts c'1880s

Apache scouts with Lt Clark and an interpreter,1880s

Tant qu'on est dans les scouts Apaches, celui-ci n'est pas triste!

Yuma Apache Scout with Face Paint and in Military Uniform With Sword 1885

houblon de meilleur qualité!

Three White Mountain Apache scouts, left to right: as Luca, Skro Kit and Shus El Day.




Lt. Gatewood, Lt. Mills, and an unidentified Apache Scout, probably a White Mountain Apache.




Apache scouts drilling with rifles, Fort Wingate, New Mexico

Al Sieber, chief of the Apache Scouts

Yellow coyote,chiricahua scout

j'ai hésité pour la rubrique, (il mériterait même la une du portail,) mais j'en ai encore des plus gratinées !

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