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Pioneer days in the Southwest from 1850 to 1879 ; thrilling descriptions of buffalo hunting, Indian fighting and massacres, cowboy life and home building
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Two Comanche Indians dressed in skins to hunt Buffalo, Nebraska Territory
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Fifty-four drawings by Franz Hölzlhuber of clothing, tools, weapons, instruments, and hides used by Native Americans, as well as portraits of individual Native American men and women (Menomonee, Chippewa, Winnebago, Comanche, Oneida, Blackhawk, Ponca, Sioux, Pawnee, Concaw, Oshkosh, Ottoe) in Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Iowa. Hölzlhuber titled the drawings on the front (in German) and there is text on the verso of the drawings (also in German). Also present is the original housing of the drawings, a volume that was entitled "Costüm-Bilder waffen und Geräthshaften einiger Indianerstamme im Nordwesten America." Box 6 contains photocopies of the German text on the versos of the drawings. There are no English translations.
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Thrilling scenes among the Indians : with a graphic description of Custer's last fight with Sitting Bull
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