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Post by Californian on Jul 22, 2024 22:50:36 GMT -5
ledger drawing with a scene possibly depicting the murder of Crazy Horse ? This drawing was sold at Poulin’s Online Firearms Auction, April 15-18, 2024, hammer price, including premium US$ 2500 click onto image to enlarge![](//storage.proboards.com/1261720/thumbnailer/QeZhKbSnJydLrMcwYpYf.png)
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Post by grahamew on Jul 23, 2024 12:16:30 GMT -5
You had me really excited there, but I thought the depiction of the dress looked more Cheyenne than Lakota and I checked the PILA site and it's a version of an image in the Black Horse ledger. I don't mean to imply it's a fake, but rather a different image made by the artist, because it doesn't look like a mere copy. plainsledgerart.org/plates/view/2014
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Post by Californian on Jul 23, 2024 13:12:57 GMT -5
definitely depicting the same scene, the paper is different, also minor details such as the shape of the roof and the location of the chimney. It is framed and now owned by anonymous collector. The estimated price was $ 400 to $ 600, but sold for $ 2700. The low auction house estimate might indicate that something may not be quite right with it.
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Post by grahamew on Jul 23, 2024 13:57:07 GMT -5
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Post by Californian on Jul 23, 2024 14:21:11 GMT -5
that makes a lot of sense Grahame and very likely that more than one ledger with identical scenes might have been produced. I wonder what that scene depicts, maybe two warriors liberating a comrade from jail?
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Post by rodthomas on Jul 31, 2024 22:49:35 GMT -5
That scene shows Black Horse being pulled from a basement in a house in Kansas during the 1879 trek to go home for the Northern Cheyenne. Two settlers were in the house and Black Horse entered the house killed one, then to the basement where the other wounded him. Mari Sandoz tells of it in her classic "Cheyenne Autumn" and Father Powell talks to it in "Sweet Medicine." Thanks for the additional pages and believe Black Horse did several. I'm working on an Excel file of all the Cheyenne ledger books and artwork referenced in the literature including auction catalogs which are invaluable.
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Post by kingsleybray on Aug 2, 2024 12:39:58 GMT -5
Could this have been an incident in the raids along Sappa and Beaver creeks?
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Post by rodthomas on Aug 2, 2024 15:25:26 GMT -5
Kingsley, thanks and yes, it is Black Horse being rescued by his two compatriots during the 1879 Kansas raids in retribution for Sappa Creek massacre in 1875. All best...
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