White Man Runs Him (One of Custer's Crow Scouts) - Apsaroke 22-¼" x 18-¼" Photogravure from The Nort...

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White Man Runs Him (One of Custer's Crow Scouts) - Apsaroke 22-¼" x 18-¼" Photogravure from The North American Indian, Supplementary Portfolio 4, Plate 115, printed 1908, by John Andrew & Son, Boston, by Edward S. Curtis. Vintage hand-pulled 22-¼" x 18-¼" photogravure (image size 15-¾" x 11-¾") on Van Gelder paper, of White Man Runs Him (One of Custer's Crow Scouts) - Apsaroke, with From Copyright Photograph 1908 by E.S. Curtis and Photogravure John Andrew & Son on the recto margin, from The North American Indian, Supplementary Portfolio 4, Plate 115, by John Andrew & Son, Boston, printed 1908. Fine+, with slight discoloration at the upper margin, not extending into the image.

More Information: Born about 1854 or 1855. Mountain Crow; Big Lodge clan; Lumpwood organization. His only coup was counted by the capture of a tethered horse. Noted for his many successful horse-raiding expeditions against the Sioux.
Scouted with Custer in his last campaign, and was one of the party of three or four scouts who, at the dawn of the morning of the Custer fight, first sighted the Sioux camp. A small party of Crow and Arikara scouts under Lieutenant Varnum, having traveled nearly all night, arrived shortly before dawn almost at the summit of the highest peak in the Wolf mountains, where the party slept for a short time. At approaching light White Man Runs Him and a couple of companions went to the top of the high peak which gave them the first view of the Sioux encampment. Following Custer's coming up to view the valley and its camp of hostiles, he was with Custer until the Sioux made their attack on him. White Man Runs Him's recollections of that day are exceedingly clear. The author spent several days with him traveling carefully over the ground covered on the day of the disastrous fight on the Little Bighorn, part of this time being accompanied by general C.A. Woodruff.
White Man Runs Him possesses no medicine derived from his own vision, but once fasted four days and four nights in the Bighorn mountains on a peak known to the Apsaroke as "Where White Man Runs Him Fasted." Of his seven wives he gave up six "good ones," that is, those who had borne him children; to discard such was an indication of a strong heart.
-Edward S. Curtis


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