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"ONLY SURVIVOR OF CUSTER FIGHT" (AMERICAN INDIANS--PHOTOGRAPHS.) Barry, David F. Photograph of Curley. Albumen photograph, 8 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches, on original card mount, with inked "Curley" stamp on photograph and embossed "Barry" stamps on photograph and mount; captioned on verso "Custer's scout and only survivor of Custer fight," apparently in Barry's hand. Np, nd
Curley was a Crow employed by Custer as a scout at the Battle of Little Bighorn. As a scout, he did not participate actively in the battle, and escaped by disguising himself as a Sioux. Barry photographed him circa 1877, about a year after the fight.
