Imperial albumen print cabinet card, 8 1/4 by 6 1/4 inches, head and shoulders portrait in profile of American Horse in war bonnet and bone breastplate by David F. Barry, "Barry" imprint stamped in photo and in lower mount, ink stamp caption in lower mount, fading, pinholes and chipping to corners of mount. An Oglala Lakota warrior and later negotiator for peace with the U.S. Government, American Horse is also thought to have been the son of Sitting Bull. As a young man, he took part in the Fetterman Fight with Crazy Horse, and later defused tensions with whites during the Ghost Dance Uprising of 1890. Late in life he made a pictographic history of the Ogala. Waldman, Biographical Dictionary of American Indian History to 1900, p 5.
Imperial albumen print cabinet card, 8 1/4 by 6 1/4 inches, head and shoulders portrait in profile of American Horse in war bonnet and bone breastplate by David F. Barry, "Barry" imprint stamped in photo and in lower mount, ink stamp caption in lower mount, fading, pinholes and chipping to corners of mount. An Oglala Lakota warrior and later negotiator for peace with the U.S. Government, American Horse is also thought to have been the son of Sitting Bull. As a young man, he took part in the Fetterman Fight with Crazy Horse, and later defused tensions with whites during the Ghost Dance Uprising of 1890. Late in life he made a pictographic history of the Ogala. Waldman, Biographical Dictionary of American Indian History to 1900, p 5.
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