The vanishing race on the old trails, ca. 1917.

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The vanishing race on the old trails, ca. 1917.

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2 scrapbooks containing typed excerpts from the book, The Vanishing Race ... by Joseph K. Dixon, newspaper clippings, magazine articles and illustrations on Native Americans, Buffalo Bill Cody and cowboys of the Old West; reproductions of photographs by Rodman Wanamaker and Edward Curtis and original photographs by Richard Throssel and L.E. Grace.

2 v. (1 box)

Colorado College, Tutt Library

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Colorado College, Tutt Library

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Curtis, Edward Sheriff, 1868-1952

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Edward Sheriff Curtis, American photographer and ethnologist, was born near Whitewater, WI, in 1868 and grew up in Seattle, WA. Fascinated with the Indians and their way of life he embarked on lifelong career dedicated to presenting "the very spirit of the Indian peoples" in photographs, film, recordings and print. George Bird Grinnell, an authority on Indians, appointed him Official Photographer to the Harriman Alaska Expedition in 1899. Curtis' dream of a comprehensive written and photographic...

Dixon, Joseph K. (Joseph Kossuth)

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Photographer of North American Indians. From 1908-1917, Joseph Kossuth Dixon led three expeditions sponsored by Rodman Wanamaker to American Indian reservations in the west. The purpose of these expeditions was to document Indian culture through photography, and in so doing to promote the campaign to make them citizens. From the description of Letter : Philadelphia, Pa., to Edward E. Ayer, Chicago, Ill., 1914 Feb. 11. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 3...

Throssel, Richard, -1933

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Throssel (1882-1933) was born in Washington state of Cree Indian and English descent. He worked as an office clerk at the Crow Indian Reservation in south-central Montana from 1902-1910 and was adopted by the Crow tribe in 1905. While at the reservation he met photographer Edward S. Curtis, and was briefly instructed by him. Throssel became a field photographer for the Crow reservation before he established his own photography studio, the Throssel Photocraft Company, in Billings, Montana, in 191...

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...

Wanamaker, Rodman, 1863-1928

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Grace, E. L.

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