Original 1876 Newspaper with Full-Front Page Thomas Nast Engraving of Lakota Sioux Chief Sitting Bull Just After the Custer Massacre at the Battle of Little Big Horn
New York: Harper's Weekly Illustrated Newspaper, 1876. 1st Edition. Folio. Very Good. Item #18064
An original 1876 illustrated newspaper with one of Thomas Nast's more famous front-page illustrations, as well as a three-page supplement at the back featuring the illustrated autobiography of Lakota Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull.
The front-page woodcut engraving features Siting Bull shaking hands with a Southern Gentleman symbolizing the former Confederate States' sympathy for the American Indian tribes warring against the U.S. Army. The caption under the illustration is headlined ; THE NEW ALLIANCE - "we stand here for Retrenchment, and Reducing the Army of the United States."
On the left of the engraving is a hanging poster with the words -
"A WHOLESALE SLAUGHTER BY THE SIOUX OF OUR SOLDIERS....THE NUMBER LIKKEDAT 300 AND THE WOUNDED AT 31...THE INDIANS WILL REDUCE OUR SKELETON ARMY STILL MORE.'
Inside is a detailed three-page autobiography of Sitting Bull, whose visions forecasted the Sioux defeat over Custer and the American Army. There are also multiple follow-up reports of Custer and Little Big Horn.
This offering, a July 29, 1876 issue of the Harper's Weekly illustrated Newspaper, is a complete 20-page newspaper, and features many other Victorian-era engravings and headline articles and great original 19th-century advertising.
The front-page engraving measures 11" X 16" and is perfect for framing and display.
#1Q-035.
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