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8 ● (AMERICAN INDIANS—PHOTOGRAPHS.) Fly, Camillus S.; photographer.
Geronimo, Son, and Two Picked Braves. Albumen photograph, 43/4 x 8 inches, on
original mount, with photographer’s printed sticker and his inked stamp on verso, image
#174 from Fly’s “Scene in Geronimo’s Camp” series; minor wear to mount, moderate
foxing. Tombstone, AZ, March 1886 image [2,000/3,000]
On the far right, holding the longer rifle, is the Chiricahua Apache leader Goyathlay, better
known by his Mexican nickname Geronimo. The Smithsonian identifies his comrades as his
brother-in-law Yahnozha; son Chappo; and second cousin Fun. The photograph was taken in
the Sierra Madre Mountains during negotiations with General Crook for his surrender. You
may recognize the image from the popular T-shirts captioned “Homeland Security: Fighting
Terrorism Since 1492,” but this is an original print.
7 ● (AMERICAN INDIANS.) Lee, Nelson.
Three Years Among the Camanches.
Frontispiece portrait. 12mo, publisher’s cloth
gilt, minor wear; minor foxing, free end-
papers torn; early signature on verso of
frontispiece.
Albany, NY, 1859 [3,000/4,000]
FIRST EDITION, issue without the illustrated
additional title page. Field, in perhaps the most
overheated bibliographic entry ever, says this
captivity narrative documents “the appalling and
monstrous cruelties of this untamable nation of
nomads . . . with the combined fury of lust and
bloodthirst” (905). Ayer Captivity 182; Graff
2444; Howes L212 (“b”); Sabin 39778;
Wagner-Camp 334.
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