M.D. Houghton, Rawlins, Wyoming

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Black Coal, Arapaho


Looking Glass, Arapaho (presumably)


Sharp Nose, Arapaho


Arapaho children. The boiy in the centre seems to be sitting on the same animal skin that lies next to the man in the image above Sharp Nose.


Arapaho village


Arapaho children and tipis


Arapaho children


Washakie, Shoshoni


Unidentified woman


Shoshone scouts
Baker and Johnson use a similar temporary backdrop of white (light, at least) cloth and foliage. Wonder if it was the same studio at the agency...


Wee-A-Wah or White Horse, Shoshone. This looks to be a completely different back drop, but it is the same as the one below...


Jim Baker, Mountain Man, trapper and tracker; supposedly taken in Cheyenne, Wyoming in 1879, so we may assume the photo of White Horse was from roughly the same time, whereas the others are slightly later.

Merritt Dana Houghton was a photographer working out of Rawlins, Wyoming. He arrived in 1875 from Michigan, initially at Laramie, and established himself as a schoolteacher and photographer and he also took up sketching. Not sure of the dates of these images, but the Arapaho didn't arrive at Wind River until 1878. The dates generally given are between 1880 and 1884, at which time, he moved to Buffalo, Wyoming.

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I think this photo of a young Shoshone is another one. I think the backdrop matches up with the Sharp Nose photo.