Silence of the Prairie - Day 2

Silence of the Prairie - Day 2

Saturday, June 14, 2025  |  9:00 AM Mountain
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Silence of the Prairie - Day 2

Silence of the Prairie - Day 2

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Davis Brothers Auction is proud to present Day 2 of our landmark summer event, Silence of the Prairie-a sweeping exhibition of rare Western fine art, historic photography, and investment-grade artifacts drawn from private collections and long-held estates across America.

Featured Artists:

Olaf Wieghorst, William Penhallow Henderson, Les Thomas, George Phippen, Granville Redmond, William Seltzer Rice, David Mayer, William Standing, Raphael Lillywhite, Maynard Dixon, Maurice Braun, Loren Entz, Clark Hulings, Frederic Remington, Carl Von Hassler, Walt Gonske, John Bye, Hans Kleiber, David Mann, Bill Anton, Don Oelze, Edward Borein, Harold Von Schmidt, Charles Russell, John Nieto, Edgar Alwin Payne, Clyde Aspevig.

Auction Highlights:

Hyatt & Tankersley Alamosa Belt Handcuffs, historic Standing Rock Reservation photographs and archive, Native American Beadwork, Colonel AE Stewart Trophy Room Photos, Edward Curtis orotones and photogravures, African tribal antiques, Acoma Pueblo pottery and so many more hidden treasures.

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Frank Bennett Fiske Indian Cabinet Photo

Lot # 201 (Sale Order: 201 of 1017)      

Edward Elk. 4 1/4" by 6 1/2". Provenance: The Estate of George W Reed Indian Missionary and Pastor of Standing Rock Reservation Fort Yates North Dakota....more

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Frank Bennett Fiske Indian Cabinet Photo

Lot # 202 (Sale Order: 202 of 1017)      

Henry Oscar One Bull Battle of the Little Big Horn Warrior, and Family. 4 1/4" by 6 1/2". Provenance: The Estate of George W Reed Indian Missionary and Pastor of Standing...more Rock Reservation Fort Yates North Dakota.

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Frank Bennett Fiske Indian Cabinet Photo

Lot # 203 (Sale Order: 203 of 1017)      

Little Bear Cree Chief. 4 1/4" by 6 1/2" Provenance: The Estate of George W Reed Indian Missionary and Pastor of Standing Rock Reservation Fort Yates North Dakota....more

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Frank Bennett Fiske Indian Cabinet Photo

Lot # 204 (Sale Order: 204 of 1017)      

Eagle Boy and Son. 4 1/4" by 6 1/2" Provenance: The Estate of George W Reed Indian Missionary and Pastor of Standing Rock Reservation Fort Yates North Dakota....more

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Indian Wars Soldier Fort Yates Cabinet Photo

Lot # 205 (Sale Order: 205 of 1017)      

Albert Strike The Kettle, Young Eagle. 4 1/8" by 6 1/2". Provenance: The Estate of George W Reed Indian Missionary and Pastor of Standing Rock Reservation Fort Yates Nort...moreh Dakota.

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Fort Yates Indian Family Cabinet Photo

Lot # 206 (Sale Order: 206 of 1017)      

John Foster and Baby. 4 1/4" by 6 1/2". Provenance: The Estate of George W Reed Indian Missionary and Pastor of Standing Rock Reservation Fort Yates North Dakota....more

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Rose Bud Block P Steamboat DF Barry Cabinet Photo

Lot # 207 (Sale Order: 207 of 1017)      

5 1/4" by 8 1/2". Provenance: The Estate of George W Reed Indian Missionary and Pastor of Standing Rock Reservation Fort Yates North Dakota. Her first trip was up the Mis...moresouri River and terminated at the Yellowstone River in 1877. Rose Bud was one of the few boats which made over 50 trips to Fort Benton, Montana. In 1880, 1883, 1886 and 1887 she was the first arrival at Fort Benton and on April 26, 1887 she was the earliest steamboat in history to arrive at Fort Benton. Rose Bud was equipped with electricity in 1882 and was the first illuminated boat seen at Fort Benton. In the fall of 1882, she sank below Claggett. She was the last of the Coulson fleet and was sold in 1884/85 to Block P Line. She sank again in August 1886 below Rocky Point. In 1887 Captain Joe Todd lacked a crew because of a strike. He hired a crew of Gros Ventres, Cree and Mandan Indians who handled the freight. After the railroad arrived in Fort Benton, she was sold to the Benton Packet Company and operated on the lower part of the Missouri. She sank at the railroad warehouse in Bismarck, South Dakota on June 16, 1896. The river was falling rapidly and she settled on some submerged piling

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Narolf Nesset Fort Yates Community School Photo

Lot # 208 (Sale Order: 208 of 1017)      

Standing Rock Reservation. 5" by 7". Provenance: The Estate of George W Reed Indian Missionary and Pastor of Standing Rock Reservation Fort Yates North Dakota. Transfer o...moref Narolf Nesset from superintendent of the Cheyenne River Indian Agency in South Dakota to superintendent at Standing Rock Agency, Fort Yates, North Dakota, was announced today by the Department of the Interior. Mr. Nesset succeeds Harold W. Schunk, recently transferred to the Rosebud Agency in South Dakota. The new move is effective December 13, according to Indian Commissioner Glen Emmons. A native of Maddock, North Dakota, Mr. Nesset joined the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1936 as a teacher at the Fort Yates Community School on the Standing Rock Reservation. In 1944 he was named principal of the school and one year later became principal of the Bureau’s school at Fort Totten, North Dakota, on the Turtle Mountain Reservation. He resigned in 1949 to become self-employed and returned to the Bureau in 1950 as Reservation Principal at the Cheyenne River Agency. Two years later he was appointed superintendent at Cheyenne River and has been serving in this position ever since. He attended college intermittently beginning in 1930 and received an A.B. degree from Valley City (North Dakota) State Teachers College in 1944.

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Reed Mission Standing Rock Reservation Photo

Lot # 209 (Sale Order: 209 of 1017)      

4 3/4" by 6 5/8". Near view of Booth The Indian Inscription Means; The Holy Book guide to our road. Provenance: The Estate of George W Reed Indian Missionary and Pastor o...moref Standing Rock Reservation Fort Yates North Dakota.

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Indian Agency Fort Yates Standing Rock Photo

Lot # 210 (Sale Order: 210 of 1017)      

3 3/4" by 5 1/2". Provenance: The Estate of George W Reed Indian Missionary and Pastor of Standing Rock Reservation Fort Yates North Dakota....more

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Reed Mission Standing Rock Reservation Photo

Lot # 211 (Sale Order: 211 of 1017)      

A Better View of Teepees at Fort Yates, at some large meeting. 4 3/4" by 6 5/8" Provenance: The Estate of George W Reed Indian Missionary and Pastor of Standing Rock Rese...morervation Fort Yates North Dakota.

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Indian Mission Fort Yates RPPC Postcard

Lot # 212 (Sale Order: 212 of 1017)      

3 1/2" by 5 1/2" Provenance: The Estate of George W Reed Indian Missionary and Pastor of Standing Rock Reservation Fort Yates North Dakota....more

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Fort Yates Indian Family Cabinet Photo

Lot # 213 (Sale Order: 213 of 1017)      

Mrs John Whiteshield and Daughters. 5 1/8" by 7 1/4". Provenance: The Estate of George W Reed Indian Missionary and Pastor of Standing Rock Reservation Fort Yates North D...moreakota.

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School and Church Poplar Montana Cabinet Photo

Lot # 214 (Sale Order: 214 of 1017)      

Fort Peck Indian Reservation Boarding School. 4 1/4" by 6 1/2". Provenance: The Estate of George W Reed Indian Missionary and Pastor of Standing Rock Reservation Fort Yat...morees North Dakota.

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Whitney Hall Santee Sioux School Cabinet Photo

Lot # 215 (Sale Order: 215 of 1017)      

Whitney Hall, Santee Normal School. Santee Nebraska. 5 1/4" by 8 1/2". Provenance: The Estate of George W Reed Indian Missionary and Pastor of Standing Rock Reservation F...moreort Yates North Dakota.

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Eliot Tabernacle Standing Rock Reservation Photo

Lot # 216 (Sale Order: 216 of 1017)      

John Eliot Tabernacle. 4 3/4" by 6 1/2". Provenance: The Estate of George W Reed Indian Missionary and Pastor of Standing Rock Reservation Fort Yates North Dakota....more

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Eliot Tabernacle Standing Rock Reservation Photo

Lot # 217 (Sale Order: 217 of 1017)      

John Eliot Tabernacle. 4 3/4" by 6 1/2". Provenance: The Estate of George W Reed Indian Missionary and Pastor of Standing Rock Reservation Fort Yates North Dakota....more

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Reed Mission Standing Rock Reservation Photo

Lot # 218 (Sale Order: 218 of 1017)      

Booth at Fort Yates North Dakota, where 1500 Indians held meetings for nearly a week. Tibbetts was present and sang in the choir. 6 5/8" by 4 3/4". Provenance: The Estate...more of George W Reed Indian Missionary and Pastor of Standing Rock Reservation Fort Yates North Dakota.

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Reed Mission Standing Rock Reservation Photo

Lot # 219 (Sale Order: 219 of 1017)      

5" by 7". Provenance: The Estate of George W Reed Indian Missionary and Pastor of Standing Rock Reservation Fort Yates North Dakota....more

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George Lawson Scott Yellowstone Park Photo

Lot # 220 (Sale Order: 220 of 1017)      

Men who captured poacher Howell. Dr. Charles M. Gandy, Lieutenant John T. Nance, Captain George Lawson Scott, and Lieutenant Forsyth. 8" by 10 1/4" framed. A native of La...morefayette, OR, George Lawson Scott (1849-1926), graduated from West Point in 1875, and was assigned soon after to the 6th US Cavalry, with which he served during the greater part of his military service in Arizona and Wyoming. He took part in the Apache campaign in the Southwest and a Sioux campaign in Wyoming and Dakota, at the time of the Ghost Dance excitement, which resulted in the death of Sitting Bull. Colonel Scott also raised the siege in the war at Fort McKinney, WY. In March 1894, Scott and a patrol of soldiers captured Edgar Howell, a poacher from Cooke City, MT, for killing Bison in the Pelican Valley section of Yellowstone Park. At the time, there were no laws that would allow prosecution of Howell, so he was temporarily detained and removed from the park. However, shortly after his capture, F. Jay Haynes, the park photographer, along with western author Emerson Hough and guide Billy Hofer encountered Scott and Howell as he was being escorted back to Fort Yellowstone. The encounter was captured on film by Haynes, and the story was telegraphed to Hough's publisher: Forest and Stream. These events inspired the magazine's editor, George Bird Grinnell, to lobby congress for a law to allow prosecution of crimes in Yellowstone, which resulted in the Lacey Act of 1894. In response to Yellowstone's park administrators' inability to punish poachers, Congressman John F. Lacey sponsored legislation that gave the Department of Interior authority to arrest and prosecute those violating the law within the park. The Lacey Act subsequently became the cornerstone of future law enforcement policies in the park. (Information obtained from familysearch.org on October 19, 2016.) In 1898, Scott commanded the headquarters' guard of General Brooks at Puerto Rico, and after the war, he had charge of the Chippewa Indians in Minnesota. For a while, he also oversaw the Apache prisoners of war at Fort Sill, OK in 1911. Following 30 years of service, Scott retired at his own request. He suffered a stroke, which resulted in his death at the Letterman General Hospital in San Francisco.

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Waldo Reed Rosebud Reservation Photo Album

Lot # 221 (Sale Order: 221 of 1017)      

13 photos. Rosebud Reservation and Chief Thunder Hawk are featured. Album owned by the Son of George W. Reed who was the pastor of Standing Rock. Provenance: The Estate o...moref George W Reed Indian Missionary and Pastor of Standing Rock Reservation Fort Yates North Dakota.

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H.B. Calfee Yellowstone Park Montana CDV Photo

Lot # 222 (Sale Order: 222 of 1017)      

2 1/2" by 4"....more

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Gold Miners RPPC Real Photo Postcard

Lot # 223 (Sale Order: 223 of 1017)      

Miners are thumbing their noses at the camera....more

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Frank Bennett Fiske Indian Cabinet Photo

Lot # 224 (Sale Order: 224 of 1017)      

Medicine Joe. 4 1/4" by 6 1/2". Provenance: The Estate of George W Reed Indian Missionary and Pastor of Standing Rock Reservation Fort Yates North Dakota....more

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Edward Boos Flathead Indian Montana Photo

Lot # 225 (Sale Order: 225 of 1017)      

5" by 7". Subject is Mot-a-len. Boos' Flathead Reservation portraits document particularly insightful details regarding the lifestyle, possessions, and landscapes of trib...moreal members just prior to the 1910 Allotment Act--an action that opened vast portions of the reservation to non-tribal settlement. In contrast to the Salish, Kootenai, and Pend'Oreille photographs, Boos' Flathead, Mission, and Missoula valleys series is a mix of broad landscape images, community events, and portraits. This series primarily contains photographs of the Flathead and Missoula valleys; however, it also includes a few photographs from the Mission valley as well as one from near Frenchtown, MT, looking east towards Missoula. The landscape photographs in this series offer a significant record of topography and general vegetative matrices during the early stages of community expansion into the foothills of the Missoula and Flathead valleys. The series also records some common leisure activities among western Montanans at the turn of the 20th Century, as well as glimpses of Missoula community events. The Victoria, B.C. series contains photographs from an undated vacation.

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