Nov 21, 2024 - Sale 2687

Sale 2687 - Lot 14

Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(AMERICAN INDIANS--PHOTOGRAPHY.) Laton A. Huffman. Portrait of the Cheyenne scout Red Sleeves or Red Armed Panther. Silver print, 5¼ x 3¾ inches, unmounted, credit and inventory number 82 in the negative; mount remnants and later pencil caption on verso. Miles, MT, circa 1879

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Red Armed Panther was a scout for General Miles at Fort Keogh near Miles City, MT. He was later a policeman at Lame Deer in the Northern Cheyenne reservation. Huffman recalled him as "a good scout, a good shot, and a royal good hunting companion." Brown & Felton, "Huffman: The Frontier Years," pages 102 and 254.