Frontier Photo, US Cavalry Indian Wars (?) Taken by Palmquist and Jergens: By G.C. Stevens

 

An unknown US Army Officer 

A "Mint Condition" Cabinet Card

just added to the authors collection.

    1880's "suspected Indian Wars"

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• Sitting Bull / Photographed and published by Palmquist & Jurgens, Cor. Seventh and Robert Str., St. Paul Minn. Summary: Photograph shows Sitting Bull, three-quarter-length portrait, seated, facing front, holding a calumet. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

The Palmquist & Jurgens Studio today is mostly known for its series of iconic photographs taken of Sitting Bull in 1884. Sitting Bull had first visited Saint Paul in March 1884, being accompanied by one of his wives, his nephew One Bull, Indian agent James McLaughlin and an interpreter. He returned again the same year on September 4th, this time accompanied by Colonel Alvaren Allen, the owner of the Merchant Hotel in Saint Paul where Sitting Bull had stayed during his first visit. During the earlier visit in March he sat for a photography session with the Palmquist & Jurgens studio, then located at 225 East Seventh Street. It has been reported that a dozen glass plate negatives were taken of Sitting Bull and an additional one of him together with his nephew One Bull. It clearly was not a chance undertaking, in fact Sitting Bull was actually permitted to enter into a contract with the photographers reportedly giving them the exclusive right to sell and market these twelve photographs, finished in the form of albumen print cabinet cards, for a one-year period. It is also certain that Sitting Bull was given supply of prints of the photographs, for him to either give away or to sell. 

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Wakinyans Fugitives: Return of The Dime Novel By G.C. Stevens

Coming soon

 The dime novels emerged in 1860's when publishers Erastus and Irwin Beadle released Malaeska, the Indian Wife of the White Hunter by Ann S. Stephens, launching an affordable paperback revolution priced at a dime (with many later nickel weeklies even cheaper). These sensationalized, paperbound stories—often 100 pages of melodrama, adventure, and frontier action were read by young readers, exploding in popularity during and after the Civil War. Early volumes drew from James Fenimore Cooper's style, focusing on conflicts with Native Americans, but quickly shifted to cowboy heroes, outlaws, train robbers, and Wild West legends like Buffalo Bill. 

Dusty Trails of the Old West Publishing brings back the Dime (and nickel) western novel with issue #1 "Wankinyans Fugitives." With two new frontier heroes, Frontiersman-trappers Levi Boone and Jean Cadotte, two bold figures from the old northwest territory, who do battle with the great Dakota Warrior Chief Ackicita, at the sacred ground of Pipestone.