Raynors HCA 2017-12
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/7/2017
Two complete and authentic issues, disbound from volume, of Harper’s Weekly newspaper, May 17 and June 28, 1873. Contains multiple engravings related to the Modoc War and “Indians on the warpath.” Very graphic images of warriors scalping and torturing prisoners; “war bucks” returning to camp with the spoils of war (white men’s top hats and scalps); and art depicting soldiers recovering the maimed bodies of their slain comrades. June issue features Captain Jack’s cave (as chief of the Modocs) and murder of Gen. Canby (blind tears on page). Accompanying text. The May issue engravings are from an April 26 reconnaissance party under Capt. Evan Thomas. Twenty-three were killed, 18 wounded, including Thomas. The Modoc War, or Modoc Campaign (also known as the Lava Beds War), was an armed conflict between the Native American Modoc people and the United States Army in northeastern California and southeastern Oregon from 1872 to 1873. Eadweard Muybridge photographed the early part of the US Army's campaign.
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