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Figure 1 1 . — Kiowa Chief Satanta, or White Bear. {Smithsonian photo BAE ijSo~A.) 



paling fence is difiicult to phice, being either an 

 animal corral, in which case it would be much too 

 high, or a forage yard, since no hay piles are visible 

 elsewhere. Stieflfel seems to have been considerably 

 fascinated by the railroad (fig. 7) with its accom- 

 panying telegraph line running southwest of the fort, 

 for again he paints in some detail, although this 

 time with an almost childish conception. The 

 "U.P.R.W.E.D." which he so carefully letters in 

 identifies the line as the Union Pacific Railway, 

 Eastern Division. ^^ The naming of the engine "Osage" 



^^ This was identified in Engineer Files, Cartographic 

 Branch, National Archives. 



was as typical of the period as the naming of individual 

 commercial aircraft is today. 



The last three paintings (figs. 8-1 Oj fall in the period 

 of StiefFel's service at Fort Keogh in the Department 

 of Dakota. The fort, named for Captain Miles 

 Keogh (who died with Custer in the Little Big Horn 

 massacre) and originally called Cantonment Tongue 

 River, was located at the confluence of the Tongue 

 and Yellowstone Rivers near present-day Miles City, 

 Montana. 



The pictures of both the fort (fig. 8) and Miles City 

 (fig. 9) are subject to check against extant photo- 

 graphs; they are amazing in their detail and accuracy. 



PAPER I 2 : HERMANN STIEFFEL, SOLDIER ARTIST OF THE WEST 



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