Description In this drawing from the 1879 ledger book, a Cheyenne warrior counts coup on a fallen adversary as he attempts to shoot his arrow. The artist drew the enemy with few details while his own self-portrait includes identifying features – the black shirt and hat with a silver pin, German silver pendant, bandana with a silver slide, silver arm bands and hair plates, and a shield with images of the sun and full and crescent moons. From the article: Preserving History in the Southern...

Description In a running battle on horseback, a Cheyenne, wearing a vest, calico shirt, painted and beaded leggings, German silver hair plates, and a peace medal (or similar medallion), attempts to count coup on a Pawnee warrior painted entirely in blue and wearing only a breechcloth and moccasins. As he aims his bow and arrow, the Pawnee's previous four arrows have passed by the Cheyenne. From the article: Preserving History in the Southern Plains: Cheyenne and Arapaho Ledger Drawings...

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Star (identified by the small star dawn above his head), shoots a standing bear from horseback. The danger and power of the bear are depicted through his long extended claws and strong jaws. From the article: Preserving History in the Southern Plains: Cheyenne and Arapaho Ledger Drawings from Fort Reno, Plains Indian Art, Created in Community. Emma I. Hansen, Curator Emerita and Senior Scholar for the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, 2016.

Description Four photographs of paintings by Charles M. Russell on one page, tags on corner of each photo with numbers: Indian men on horseback looking over prairie. "192" Indian men on horseback spearing a buffalo. "193" Cowboys on horseback roping a wolf or coyote. "194" Cowboy shooting an Indian. "201" Descriptive Title Indian Men on Horseback Descriptive Title Buffalo Hunt ...

Description Folder 353 Transcript (DCI) [first page of multi-page letter] [handwritten in cursive with ink] [stationery with personal letterhead of four lines centered at top of page: “WILL RICHARD”, “SCULPTOR-TAXIDERMIST”, “THE CODY MUSEUM”, “CODY, WYO.”] Mar 1 / 31Dear Leigh: - It looks as tho I never would get around to answer your long letter of over a month ago, but I received it just as I was about to start down to...

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Outlaw Shooting Cowboy. Front right, bottom corner sicker in ink '155;' back side, top left corner in pencil 'D.5.2013.'

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Outlaw Shooting Cowboy. Front side, top right corner in ink 'D.5.2014.'

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Photograph of a painting of a cowboy on horseback in the foreground being shot at by two Indian men on horseback in the middle ground. Buffalo skeleton submerged in water in the foreground. Handwritten in red below the image, "329".

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Inscribed in red ink, "329" in lower center

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This is a photo postcard, printed in color with a reproduction of a Charles M. Russell watercolor of a saloon scene with three men lounging at a bar while another fires at the feet of still another. Words at the bottom read, "Dance! You short-horn dance!" At the top it reads, "101 Ranch, Bliss, O.T." and "I find cow-boys a social set, at one of their 'gatherings' I was invited to dance." Reverse side is blank but has Charles M. Russell's signature buffalo skull in the stamp location.

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Negative for TU2009.39.259.20a. A painting of a cowboy on horseback in the foreground being shot at by two Indian men on horseback in the middle ground. Buffalo skeleton submerged in water in the foreground.