Charles Stobie papers, ca. 1860-1931.

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Charles Stobie papers, ca. 1860-1931.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/247985468

The collection includes numerous photographs: studio portraits, group portraits, informal portraits of Charles S. Stobie. Group portraits of Charles Stobie with Jim Baker and Indian Agent D.C. Oakes; James R. Thompson; Jack Crawford; Charlie Christie [Christy]; "Yellowstone" Luther S. Kelly and John Howard, scouts for General N.A. Miles; and Albino Shevenia, Pueblo Chief, N.M., and Charlie Christy posed in front of a house in Denver, Colorado. Images of Charles Stobie's house, painting studio,1 and apartment in Chicago, Illinois. Portraits of Buffalo Bill (William F. Cody), Johnny Baker, his foster son, and a famous marksman. View of Buffalo Bill's ranch in Wyoming and a hunting camp. Many of the studio portraits show Stobie in costume and posed as a frontiersman. Letter from Western frontiersman "Yellowstone" Kelly, Army scout for Gen. Nelson A. Miles, describing his life at his home "Cedar Lodge" (1919 Jan. 4, Paradise, Calif.); letter and poem: "To Capt. Jack Crawford," Army scout and poet (1902 Mar. 25, Denver, Colo.); woodcut of Stobie, with description (n.d.).

.25 linear ft. (1 box), 4 photo boxes (265 photographic prints, card photographs : albumen)

Denver Public Library, Central Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7137565

Denver Public Library, Central Library

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Crawford, Jack, 1847-1917

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Frontier scout, writer, and performer, known as "Captain Jack Crawford, the poet scout." B. John Wallace Crawford, Mar. 4, 1847 County Donegal, Ireland; d. Feb. 28, 1917 Brooklyn, N.Y. From the description of John Wallace Crawford papers, 1877-1917. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 13307258 Author. From the description of Jack Crawford correspondence, 1901. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450015 "The poet scout"; scout for the Black Hills Ra...

Baker, Johnny, 1869-1931

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Stobie, Charles Stewart, 1845-1931.

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Charles Stewart Stobie, a.k.a. "Mountain Charlie," was an early artist-documentarian of the Colorado frontier in the 1860's and 1870's. He was a colorful Denver, Colo. personality who worked as an Indian fighter, scout, buffalo hunter and was a member of the Ute Tribe and an intimate of many of the major figures and icons of the day. Born in Baltimore Md. in 1845, he moved with his family to Chicago, Ill. in 1862-63, but later traveled to Colo. in 1865. Stobie returned to Chicago, Ill. in 1875 w...

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Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917

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Buffalo Bill was employed as a scout by the United States 5th Cavalry, 1868-1872. In 1869 he participated in the Battle of Summit Springs, Colorado, in which the 5th Cavalry defeated Cheyenne Indians. From the description of Letter : Saint Louis, Missouri, to Joseph Witherspoon Cook, Greenwood, South Dakota, 1896 May 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702162229 From the description of Letter : Saint Louis, Mo., to Joseph Witherspoon Cook, Greenwood, S.D., 1896 May 23. (Unkno...

Kelly, Luther S. (Luther Sage), 1849-1928

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Luther S. Kelly, known also as "Yellowstone Kelly", was a trapper, hunter and Army scout. In 1898 Kelly was sent to Alaska to serve on the Reindeer for Alaska Relief Expedition. He was later assigned to an expedition under E. F. Glenn that scouted mail routes to Yukon posts. In 1899 Kelly was hired by the Harriman Expedition and traveled in Alaska before being assigned to command a Philippine post at Dapitan in Mindanao. After successfully resisting a seige by escaped convicts and outlaws in Mar...