19th-century newspaper lot featuring articles on the Indian Wars and ‘Wild West’ figures of the day, which includes:
String-bound issue of the New York Daily Tribune from November 2, 1855, 16.25 x 21.5, eight pages, with page six featuring an article entitled “The Sioux War,” which reads, in part: “We have already published accounts from Fort Laramie to the 27th ult., derived from different sources. As the reader will have observed, intelligent men, conversant of all that was passing around them, differ materially in their views of the war—one insisting that the Indians were hostile, and that additional troops would be necessary to subdue them; and another that there would be no more fighting. Where such a difference of opinion is found between men upon the ground, and having all necessary information, we may well be puzzled about the future in that region—whether it will be a state of peace or war.”
Front page of The Chicago Daily Tribune from June 27, 1878, 17.5 x 23.75, two pages, with page two featuring a column dedicated to “The Hostiles,” which includes subheadings: “Additional Particulars of Col. Bernard's Recent Fight,” “The Indian Force Believed to Have Numbered About 700,” “Forty of the Savages Known to Have Been Killed in the Charge,” “Howard Moving Rapidly to Form a Junction with Bernard,” “In the Black Hills,” “Chief Moses,” “Texas,” and “The Cheyennes.”
Inner page from the July 20, 1881 issue of The New-York Times, 17.75 x 22.5, constituting pages 5 and 6, which on the former includes a special section headed “Death of a Famous Ranger,” which announces the demise of legendary frontiersman Jim Bridger: “A special dispatch to the Tribune from Kansas City says: ‘James Bridger, an old scout and companion of Fremont, after whom Fort Bridger was named, and the first white man to follow the Santa Fe trail across the plains, is dead, aged 76.” In overall very good to fine condition, with wear to edges.
The Collection of Dr. Joseph Matheu.
