identifications in ink along with the notation Red Clouds War Attitude, photographer and location unknown, circa 1882. Goodyear illustrates this view in his study of the known Red Cloud photographs. Young Spotted Tail stands at center, assuming the position of his assasinated father. Deemed too inexperienced to represent them in Washington, the Brule tribal council appointed White Thunder. Later, in a fit of jealousy, he was killed by Young Spotted Tail. Charles P. Jordan was a well-known frontiersman. He became a licensed Indian trader and ran a trading post on the Rosebud Reservation. He maintained a long friendship with Red Cloud, a relationship solidified when he married Red Cloud's niece, Julia Walks First (see Goodyear 2003: 62-65).
(text from Cowanīs auction site)

Young Spotted Tail, a son of old Spotted Tail, is now the third chief of the nation. He is a fine looking young fellow, and is considered by all the whites in that part of the country a "good Indian,". not a dead one, as the soldiers say. Only dead ones are "good Indians." Young Spotted Tail is a good man, and for peace all the time. To show you he is a man of good sense and of a peaceable turn, under the Indian law and usage he, young Spotted Tail, has the right to kill Crow Dog, because Crow Dog killed his father, but he declines to do so, saying he prefers peace among his people, and that he wants them to become good citizens and learn to make their own living by labor and work, like other people. "When I learned all this, " says Maj. Sparks, "it made a very favorable impression on me in regard to
the young chieftain." He is a splendid looking young Indian, and the Major took a great liking to him. He has a handsome young wife (squaw) and one child, a little hoy about six years old. He was the "fanciest" dressed little prince you ever saw, says Maj. S., and he never left his mother's side when we were there. It made no difference when we saw Mrs. Spotted Tail, this little fellow was with her, holding to her hand. The Major adds: " 1 took such a fancy to the little boy's dress, having a little boy aboul his size myself, that Mrs. Spotted Tail made me a suit and sunt it to my little hoy, and he is now the proudest little fellow in Tennessee. 1 think every boy in Murfrecsboro', of his size, has tried on the suit of clothes. There is not a woman in Tennessee that can do such work. So the ladies here --ay. although it was done 1>\- a wild Indian."