(AMERICAN INDIANS PHOTOGRAPHS) [Gardner Alexander] Cabinet

Sale 2253 - Lot 32

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(AMERICAN INDIANS--PHOTOGRAPHS.) [Gardner, Alexander.] Cabinet card portrait of Scar-Faced Charley, Modoc. Albumen print, 5 1/2 x 4 inches, on original U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey mount. Np, nd

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"The famous war chief of the lava bed warriors, and the greatest of their soldiers. . . . He led the Modocs . . . when the United States troops were so disastrously repulsed and when two-thirds of our men were killed and wounded. Wearied of the slaughter, he shouted to the survivors, 'You fellows that are not dead had better go home; we don't want to kill you all in one day.' He has said since, 'My heart was sick of seeing so many men killed'"--Jackson, 1877 Descriptive Catalogue, 1008.