Heading: (Native American - Modoc War)
Author: Muybridge, Eadweard, & Carleton E. Watkins
Title: Six stereo views of the Modoc War
Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher:
Date Published: 1873
Description:

Four views are by Muybridge, published by Bradley & Rulofson in The Modoc War series, on yellow mounts. Two views are by Watkins, published by him in his Pacific Coast series, on red mounts. The mounts measure 8.7x17.8 cm (3½x7").

Photographic record of this armed conflict between the Native American Modoc people and the United States Army in northeastern California and southeastern Oregon from 1872 to 1873. These are rare examples of contemporaneously published photographs of one of the many wars between the U.S. military and Native Americans, taken while the fighting was ongoing.

Includes:

• Muybridge. 1614 - Bluff to West of Tule Lake.
• Muybridge. 1815 - On a start for a Reconnaissance of the Lava Beds.
• Muybridge. 1616 - On the Lookout for an Attach at a Picket Station.
• Muybridge. 1621 - Generals Jeff. C. Davis, Hardie, and Gillem; and Officers of the Modoc Campaign.
• Watkins. 2503. Headquarters on Tule Lake, taken N.E. from Bluff.
• Watkins. 2515. View of Lava Bed, near Mason's camp, showing a group of Soldiers and Warm Spring Indians.

Some modest soiling and wear to mounts; very good.