The agent's residence at Red Cloud, 1875

[grahamew]

Great photo from here nebraskahistory.pastperfectonline.com/photo/C007CFC4-4CD3-47EF-A02C-395015709510



Agent's residence at Red Cloud Agency, 1875. Caption: 1. Cheyene Indians, 2. Black Coal, Arapaho Chief. 3. Friday, Arapaho interpreter, 4. Calico, Oglala Sioux Indian, 5. Martin Gibbon, Agency Clerk, 6. Dr. J.J. Saville, 7. Sioux Indian, 8. Joe Kammen, ambulance Driver 9. Mike Dunn, Head Teamster.

I've enlarged it best I can. Anyone have a better version?

[kingsleybray]

Thanks for posting, grahamew. Marvellous!

For the record, we can trace two of the white agency employees in the 1876-77 Red Cloud Agency census record (published as THE CRAZY HORSE SURRENDER LEDGER).

Mike Dunn - Head Teamster was married into the Cheyenne, the "Mrs Dunn" family is noted as 'h' in Feb. 1877, meaning they lived in a house or log cabin, not a tipi.

Joe Kammen, or Kamen - ambulance driver (in other words Agt Saville's chauffeur I suppose) was married into Red Cloud's band of Oglala, where Mrs Kamen is listed.

Martin Gibbon stood in for Agt Saville several times when the agent was on leave or business in Washington. As far as we can tell, he wasn't married into the native communities at Red Cloud Agency.

[grahamew]

Thanks, Kingsley.

[ephriam]

Thank you, Graham, for sharing this. There are several other photographs from the same series, taken probably in the summer of 1875. These may be from the photographer who came for the Black Hills Treaty council.

This is a view of the front of the Red Cloud Agency. We knew of this image before, but others in the series are new!



In this next image, the photographer catches the corner of the agent's house on the right edge and looks across the agency compound toward the offices, which includes a meeting room where Saville and Oglala leaders often met.



And in this image, the photographer is looking further to his left towards the warehouse where the rations and annuity goods were stored. You can barely see the top of the two story bastion on the other side.



Ephriam

[ephriam]

And according to the employee ledger for the Red Cloud Agency, Michael Dunn served as the chief herder from 20 Apr 1875 to 16 Aug 1876. Joseph Kamen as the agency farmer until 30 Sept 1876; and Martin Gibbon served as storekeeper from 10 Dec 1874 to some time in 1875.

[Dietmar]

Good prints of the photographs above are in Thomas R. Buecker: Last Days of Red Cloud Agency - Peter T. Buckley's Photograph Collection, 1876-77

[grahamew]

Kind of related - I just saw this on ebay: Ben Tibbetts, the butcher at Red Cloud Agency. The owner reckons this is dated 1878: