George W. Scott

[rodthomas]

Has anybody ever seen the "Bolduc Ledger?" I am trying to find out all that I can about it. Just heard of a few weeks back and have not been able to locate anything. Thanks!

Regards, Rod Thomas

[grahamew]

Oct 24, 2011 10:37:51 GMT -5 Dietmar said:

Black Tomahawk???

So... years later, I come across the same photo in the South Dakota Digital Archives and it is identified as Joseph D. Mathieson and Tomahawk in 1889. Tomahawk = Black Tomahawk, I guess...

[grahamew]

Unidentified 'Sioux with gun' Note the 'earlier' backdrop



This is supposed to represent a reconstruction of the attack on Sitting Bull's cabin by the agency police, though it's not the same cabin as in this better version of an image posted upthread:



This must be another Scott because you can recognise some of the men from the photos above.


Sitting Bull's corral


Gall's mother


A better image of Red Tomahawk. Is he one of the two men outside Sitting Bull's cabin, above?


Long Wolf - one of the young Arikara(?) men in this image (already posted):

Yellow Horn and Wolf/Lone Wolf 


Hand to hand.


And again - same participants as above


Taking a scalp - same participants as above


Billy Ponum


Woman and daughter. I can make out that she was a widow from the handwritten text but not the rest. Lanagan, maybe?


Unidentified (again, I can't make out the text) - an earlier image


An image we had earlier as Falling Water; he, he seems to be called 'Shorty' and maybe Wa-kun...


Unidentified


Although I've seen this credited to Scott, I'm not sure: Waluta Winyan or Scarlet Woman, wife of Bird Beak. Doesn't look like the Scarlet Woman in the photo posted upthread.


Scott's photo of the Ghost Dance at Grand River - or the image credited to him at least. This is a better image than the one upthread:


Sitting Bull is supposed to be in the group between the tipi and the dancers

[Californian]

hi Grahame. thank you for your superb spread of George W. Scott images. On the one you have as "Shorty" and possibly "Wak-Un", the copy I own shows "Running Water" seemingly in Scott's own hand - likely we'll never know really who this one is

click onto attachment to enlarge

[grahamew]

Ah, my bad. I thought it was Falling Water and didn't check. Suppose 'Shorty' could be a nickname...

[Californian]

well, looking at the handwriting, the one on your samples looks more contemporary (i.e. the last 50 years) 
you are right, Shorty could be a nickname, sounds like one 

Jun 21, 2022 13:09:52 GMT -5 grahamew said:

Ah, my bad. I thought it was Falling Water and didn't check. Suppose 'Shorty' could be a nickname...

[grahamew]

One of thje earlier Scotts. The man is posted above but I'm not sure the inscription on that card matches the name given here

[Californian]

George Winfield Scott (1854-1910)

Born an reared at Georgetown, District of Columbia, on the banks of the historic Potomac, where the life of the nation centers, and which was during the Civil War an almost unbroken line of battle, having served his country in the signal corps and weather bureau in many places, George Winfield Scott of this service and an artistic photographer at Lander, has a wide and varied experience. His birth occurred on March 21, 1854, a son of John and Sarah C. (Bingey) Scott, the father a native of Washington D.C., and the mother of New Jersey, the father being a prominent merchant in the Federal City, where he died in 1897 at the age of eighty, his wife having preceded him to the grave in 1863, when she was but thirty-six. Of their eight children, but two are living, John T., an honored official in the National Museum at Washington, and George W., who was educated in the public schools of the District of Columbia, and with a course of business training at Duff’s Commercial College at Pittsburgh, Pa. Later he worked in the glass factories at Pittsburgh, making good wages, although he was but fifteen years old, and learned the painter’s trade, at which he worked for five years. He then joined the U.S. signal service, and after passing through its school of instruction he was stationed successively at Pittsburgh, Washington, Philadelphia, New York, Duluth, Bismarck, N.D.; Fort Bennett and Deadwood, S.D., where he quit the service and engaged in the photograph business in 1883. He passed four years in the business in that city, and then reentering the signal service was stationed at Omaha for seven months and thereafter at Deadwood until that station was abandoned in 1888, when he was sent to Bismarck, then to Fort Yates, N.D., for three years, and from there in 1891 to reopen the abandoned station at Yankton and take charge of the weather bureau at that place, where he remained three years, going thence to Des Moines, Iowa, for a short time and finally in 1894 coming to Lander as the head of the bureau of that brisk young city. Soon after coming here he started a photographic business and leased the telegraph line and has conducted both of these establishments almost continuously since then. He has the only photograph gallery for the patronage of Lander and many miles of adjacent territory, and by his skill and attention to business has secure a large and profitable trade. He is a progressive and enterprising man, earnestly devoted to the welfare of his country, and finding its best security in the proper administration of local affairs, in these he takes great interest. He is president of the city board of education, an officer in the National Guard of the state, being the captain of Co. B, and the popular observer of the Lander weather bureau. He belongs to the Ancient Order of United Workmen in Yankton and to the Woodmen of the World in Lander. On January 12, 1885, he was married at Deadwood with Miss Kittie A. Wilson, a daughter of James A. and Sarah M. (Edwards) Wilson, natives of Michigan. They have five children, Lee E., George E., James, Ruth A. and Lew. Both parents are active members of the Methodist Episcopal church and Mrs. Scott is a gentleman of property, a progressive and enlightened citizen, a faithful and capable official, an accomplished artist, the family being welcome additions to all social circles. His residence on Lincoln street is one of the comfortable and attractive homes of the town. Source: Progressive Men of the state of Wyoming, A. W. Bowen & Co., Chicago IL, 1905, pages 284/285

George W. Scott died on February 8th, 1910 due to carcinoma of the stomach in Los Angeles, California. He had been in California for 3 weeks. His son Jim was a pitcher for the Chicago White Sox.

[grahamew]

Pretty Voice, Yankton (or maybe Yanktonai)
Poor quality image, but we can see it's the same man as posted earlier in the thread. Not sure the date is correct, but I suspect the idea that Scott stopped using this particular backdrop in 1884 may be incorrect.