2024-01 Raynors Americana Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/21/2024
Hand painted bust, 21"t x 14"w x 10"d, incised at base "Red Cloud" and on the back "228". No maker, nd. These were often counter advertisements for the selling of cigars. O/A very good. Red Cloud (Lakota, 1822-1909) was a leader of the Oglala Lakota from 1865 to 1909. He was one of the most capable Native American opponents whom the United States Army faced in the western territories. He defeated the United States during Red Cloud's War, which was a fight over control of the Powder River Country in northeastern Wyoming and southern Montana. The largest action of the war was the 1866 Fetterman Fight, with 81 US soldiers killed; it was the worst military defeat suffered by the US Army on the Great Plains until the Battle of the Little Bighorn 10 years later.
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