GENERAL NELSON MILES AND OFFICERS AT WOUNDED KNEE BATTLEFIELD. c.1890 ...

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GENERAL NELSON MILES AND OFFICERS AT WOUNDED KNEE BATTLEFIELD
c.1890

Photo by George Trager. Albumen boudoir size view depicts Miles and other officers in the foreground with the Wounded Knee battlefield in the background. Tipi poles still upright with a number of carts and ponies visible. Doubtless taken shortly after the battle. Trager's Northwester Photographic Co. Chadron, Neb. logo on verso, in which Trager also offers "Epilepsy Cured." Scarce.

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