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[Defeat of Roman Nose by Colonel Forsyth] – Vintage Wall Art

[Defeat of Roman Nose by Colonel Forsyth] — historic drawing
[Defeat of Roman Nose by Colonel Forsyth]. Historic drawing from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Roman Nose, a Cheyenne war leader known for his battle medicine, is the figure at the center of this scene, which shows his fall during fighting along the Arikaree River in Colorado in September 1868. That clash, later called the Battle of Beecher Island, pitted a small company of scouts under George A. Forsyth against a far larger force of Cheyenne and Lakota warriors, and the scouts held out on a sandbar for several days. Published in Scribner's in 1901, the drawing reflects how magazines of that era retold the Plains wars, so its dramatic staging is worth reading alongside other accounts.

Medium1 drawing : wash.
GenreScribner's
Notes1901
SubjectsCampaigns & battles. Indians of North America. Soldiers--American.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,026 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-110240

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