Plains Indian Raiders; The Final Phases of Warfare from the Arkansas to the Red River, with Original Photographs by William S. Soule

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1968. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. Very good/Good. William S. Soule (Photographer). xx, 418, [2] pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Some edge soiling. DJ has wear, tears, soiling and chips. Bookplate of Thomas Fulton inside front cover. Nye graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Class of 1920. He retired as a U.S. Army Colonel. Colonel (Field Artillery) Wilbur Sturtevant Nye, United States Army, was awarded the Legion of Merit for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services to the Government of the United States as Commanding Officer, 173d Field Artillery Group, XV Corps, from 1944 to 1945. A noted author, he was also for a time Editor of the U.S. Army's Field Artillery Journal. William Stinson Soule (1836-1908) was the photographer at Fort Sill (now in Oklahoma) from its founding in 1869 to the end of the Indian campaigns in 1874-1875. Soule moved from New England circa 1868, first working as a photographer at Fort Dodge, Kansas, then at Camp Supply with General Philip Sheridan's campaigning troops. As the photographer for the United States Army at Fort Sill, he photographed the construction of the fort as well as many of the people and events associated with the Indian Wars. Soule left Fort Sill in 1875 to return to Boston where he joined his brother's Soule Photograph Co. and then operated the Soule Art Company until his death. From primary sources collected over some thirty years, both textual and photographic, Wilbur S. Nye tells the story of the military subjugation of the Plains Indians and their removal to reservations in Indian Territory. Complementing the text, which covers a segment of American history that has heretofore been told chiefly in fragments, are the superb photographs of William S. Soule. As fine a craftsman as Mathew Brady, Soule made many photographs of the aboriginal red men. These pictures, showing exactly how the Indian looked, what they wore, and how they lived, are published here in a relatively complete collection for the first time. This is a fascinating account of the bloody raids, from the 1860's to the 1880's by the Kiowa, Comanche, Apache, Cheyenne, and Souix Indians, and the final military subjugation of these Plains Indians to Indian Reservations. With over 100 superb photographs by William S. Soule, of individual Indians, each page has a photograph of the Indian or Indians, and the facing page gives descriptive text on the Indians.