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Figure 2. — Attack on General Marcys train near Pawnee Fort, Kansas, September 23, 1867. The train 

 was escorted by Company K, 5th U.S. Infantry, Brevet Major D. H. Brotherton commanding. (JJSNM 

 2841 8j; Smithsonian photo j8gS6-A.) 



and canvas. C^rude though many of these works are, 

 they are nonetheless significant, for they are a graphic 

 record of what these men saw, where they lived, and 

 what they did, in many cases the only record of 

 particular places and events, for the camera of L. A. 

 Hulfman and his colleagues did not come into its own 

 until the late 1870"s." Without them we would have 

 no description, graphic or otherwise, of much of the 

 West both before and after the Civil War — the early 

 trading posts and forts, the Oregon, Santa Fe, and 

 Overland Trails, the Bozeman Trail, the stage sta- 

 tions, all of which played a part in the opening and 

 development of the West.^ 



2 See: Mark H. Brown and W. R. Felton, The Frontier Tears. 

 L. A. Huffman, Photographer 0/ the Plains, New York, Henry Holt 

 and Co., 1955; Martin F. Schmitt and Dee Brown, Fighting 

 Indians of the West, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1 948. 



' An excellent group of these crude on-the-spot drawings and 

 paintings is reproduced in Grace Raymond Hcl^ard and E. A. 

 Brininstool, The Bozeman Trail, 2 vols., Cleveland, The Arthur 

 H. Clark Co., 1922. 



In 1946 the heirs of Lt. Col. David H. Brotherton, 

 U.S. Army, an Indian-fighting officer of many years 

 experience on the frontier, donated to the United 

 States National Musetim a collection ■* comprising a 

 number of Sioux Indian specimens, including a 

 Model 1866 Winchester carbine said to have been 

 surrendered in 1881 to C'olonel Brotherton by the 

 Sioux chief. Sitting Bull, and ten water colors by a 

 German-born private soldier, Hermann StiefTel of 

 Company K, 5th U.S. Infantry. Nine of these paint- 

 ings (the tenth I)eing a view of Rattenberg in the 

 Tyrol Alps) are photographically reproduced herein. 

 They constitute an unusually graphic and colorful, if 

 somewhat unartistic, series of documentaries on the 

 West of the post-Cavil-War Indian fighting period. 



It can be surmised that Brotherton obtained the 

 paintings from StiefTel, for from 1861 to 1879 he 



* No. 173740 in the U.S. National Museum. 



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