W.S. Soule Albumen Cabinet Card of Tom-e-ath-to (Trailing the Enemy) and Wife

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W.S. Soule Albumen Cabinet Card of Tom-e-ath-to (Trailing the Enemy) and Wife :
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W.S. Soule Albumen Cabinet Card of Tom-e-ath-to (Trailing the Enemy) and Wife Eonah-pah(Lone Wolf\'s Daughter.)

Card Size: 6.5\" x 4.25\", ca 1870. Ink inscription on front and Pencil inscription, verso: Tom-e-ath-to & Squaw, Kiowas. Trailing the Enemy was a leading Kiowa warrior. The curved feather in his hair proclaims him to be a member of the Onde, the highest caste in Kiowa society. Trailing the Enemy happened to be a guest in the camp on the Washita River of the Cheyenne chief Black Kettle, when it was attacked without warning by the 7th U.S. Cavalry under Lt. Col. George Custer at dawn on Nov. 28, 1868. A group of about 30 women and children fled along the river bottom, protected only by Trailing the Enemy with a bow and arrows, an elderly Cheyenne chief named Little Rock with a single-shot fusil, and a teenage boy. Custer’s second-in-command Major Joel Elliot led a group of soldiers out of the village, chasing these fugitive women and children.

Very rare and important W.S. Soule photo in excellent condition: Just a smudge L/L on the front and some light foxing on the back of the card. This is the last of a group of 10 original Soule photos that I sold, mostly at Skinners sale years ago. This one was kept due to the appealing image and it\'s historical importance.

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Soule, William S. (William Stinson), 1836-1908

William S. \"Will\" Soule made his way west in 1867. At age 29, he was a wounded Civil War veteran looking for a way to improve his health. Upon his arrival at Fort Dodge in Kansas, he clerked in trader John E. Tappin\'s post store.

When Soule left for the west, he brought along equipment for landscape and portrait photography. He was acquainted with photography through several means: his employment, after his injury, with a photographic gallery in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania; and his brother, John P. Soule, who established the Soule Photographic Company in Boston before the Civil War.

Soule\'s photograph of a scalping victim taken near Fort Dodge became his first published work. An engraving was made from his photograph, and it appeared in the January 16, 1869 issue of Harper\'s Weekly.

Soule left Fort Dodge for Camp Supply, Indian Territory, in the spring of 1869, and arrived in Fort Sill, Indian Territory, in late 1869 or early 1870. Fort Sill was a military headquarters and an agency for several tribes, including the Kiowa, Wichita, and Comanche. Belous and Weinstein, in their book, Will Soule: Indian Photographer at Fort Sill, Oklahoma 1869-1874 (1969), purport that most of Soule\'s Indian portraits were taken at or near Fort Sill, and they date them between 1870 and 1874.

Soule returned to Boston in late 1874 or early 1875, and partnered with W. D. Everett in the photographic business. His brother John P. Soule secured copyrights for many of the Indian portraits through the Library of Congress. Soule died in 1908.

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