Swift Bear

Alan W. Farley Collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: WHC-M-1017

Scope and Contents

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Attorney. Notebooks of memoirs by Homer W. Wheeler, describing his life as an Army Scout; broadsides, newspapers, and handbills regarding the settlement of Kansas; along with a wide variety of other documents collected by Farley and relating the the Civil War, settlement of Kansas, Indian battles on the Great Plains with an emphasis on Kansas, and on the history of the American West in general. Also included is one of the two known copies of the "Siwinowe Kesibwi" (Shawnee Sun) newspaper (1841).

Dates: 1833-1966

Found in: Western History Collections

Arapaho and Sioux chiefs with an interpreter. Identification: L-R: Sitting Bull (Hunkpapa Sioux), Swift Bear (Arapaho), Spotted Tail (Brule Sioux), Julius Meyer – interpreter, trader, etc., Red Cloud (Oglala Sioux). BAE., Undated

Item — Box Photo C-84, item: 58

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Comanche, Cheyenne, Cheyenne-Arapaho, Arapaho, Sac and Fox, Sioux, Blackfoot, Kiowa, Crow, Ute, Shawnee, Omaha, Pueblo, Shoshoni, Pawnee, Ponca, Assinibone, Apache, Yakima Nez Perce, Umatilla, Wichita, Osage, Potawatomi and Flathead Indians. Also included are photographs of the U.S. Army during the Indian Wars (1865-1891), Western forts and posts, the Little Big Horn battlefield, trails and settlements of the Southwest, soil conservation and dust storms, Oklahoma towns, mountain ranges and National Parks.

Dates: Undated

Found in: Western History Collections / Walter Stanley Campbell Photograph Collection

Brule Sioux Indian delegation under Spotted Tail at Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 1877. Indent.: Big Rood, Iron Crow, Little Big Man, Yellow Bear, Black Crow, Touch The Clouds, Red Cloud, Spotted Tail Jr., Swift Bear, White Tail, Ring Thunder, He Dog, Dr. J.C. Hall, Capt. Nicholson, A. Hyde, W. Corcoran, Hollow Horn, General Crook, Little Hawk, Young Man Afraid Of His Horse, Good Voice, Billy Hunger, Spotted Tail, Joseph Merriville, Anton Jennis, Lt. Clark, American Horse, Little Wound, Black Coal, Friday, Sharp Nose, Three Bears, Red Bear. BAE., 1877

Item — Box Photo C-84, item: 28

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Comanche, Cheyenne, Cheyenne-Arapaho, Arapaho, Sac and Fox, Sioux, Blackfoot, Kiowa, Crow, Ute, Shawnee, Omaha, Pueblo, Shoshoni, Pawnee, Ponca, Assinibone, Apache, Yakima Nez Perce, Umatilla, Wichita, Osage, Potawatomi and Flathead Indians. Also included are photographs of the U.S. Army during the Indian Wars (1865-1891), Western forts and posts, the Little Big Horn battlefield, trails and settlements of the Southwest, soil conservation and dust storms, Oklahoma towns, mountain ranges and National Parks.

Dates: 1877

Found in: Western History Collections / Walter Stanley Campbell Photograph Collection

Swift Bear, Ma-to-dusa, holding eagle wing fan, Brule Sioux, portrait., Undated

Item — Box Photo C-86, item: 211

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Comanche, Cheyenne, Cheyenne-Arapaho, Arapaho, Sac and Fox, Sioux, Blackfoot, Kiowa, Crow, Ute, Shawnee, Omaha, Pueblo, Shoshoni, Pawnee, Ponca, Assinibone, Apache, Yakima Nez Perce, Umatilla, Wichita, Osage, Potawatomi and Flathead Indians. Also included are photographs of the U.S. Army during the Indian Wars (1865-1891), Western forts and posts, the Little Big Horn battlefield, trails and settlements of the Southwest, soil conservation and dust storms, Oklahoma towns, mountain ranges and National Parks.

Dates: Undated

Found in: Western History Collections / Walter Stanley Campbell Photograph Collection

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Alan W. Farley Collection

Arapaho and Sioux chiefs with an interpreter. Identification: L-R: Sitting Bull (Hunkpapa Sioux), Swift Bear (Arapaho), Spotted Tail (Brule Sioux), Julius Meyer – interpreter, trader, etc., Red Cloud (Oglala Sioux). BAE., Undated

Swift Bear, Ma-to-dusa, holding eagle wing fan, Brule Sioux, portrait., Undated

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