Lot includes cabinet card, watercolor, and papers establishing provenance. Watercolor is 11.5 x 9 in.,mounted at the top edge to backing affixed with the label of Waterloo House, Mantle Department, Cockspur St., Pall Mall East, and inked 1888. Side underneath the painting is inked Presented to Caroline Heitmeyer approximately 50 yrs ago by "Nelson," an Indian Scout of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show., and Sha-Cha-Cha-Opogeo, Red Willow Fill the Pipe. Cabinet card is of John Nelson, "Scout, interpreter & Guide" published by Elliott and Fry of London during the Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show tour of England in 1887-1888. Penciled on verso Was Caroline Heitmeyer's friend at that time, he gave her this and the oil painting. John Young Nelson (1826-unk.) toured with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show as The Squaw Man, as he had taken a Sioux wife and fathered "half-breed" children who accompanied him and the Show across the United States and Europe. Nelson was born in Virginia but set out for adventure on the frontier as young man to escape his abusive father. He toiled on farms and a Mississippi River steamer before hooking up with a group of traders heading West from Missouri, where he encountered a band of Sioux whose lifestyle he greatly admired. Nelson learned their language and ways and was eventually adopted into the tribe. His knowledge of both white and Indian culture proved invaluable to many settlers making the journey West so he worked as a hired guide, most notably to Brigham Young and the group of Mormons who settled in Utah in 1847. Nelson later worked alongside a young William F. Cody as a scout at Fort McPherson in the late 1860s, which led to Cody casting him in one of his first stage productions, Attack on a Settler's Cabin, in which Nelson played the title settler and Cody his heroic rescuer. The act became a staple of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, and Nelson and his family toured with the show for many years. Provenance: Descended Directly in the Heitmeyer Family Condition: Cabinet card missing lower left corner and with soiling, staining, and flyspecking.
Lot includes cabinet card, watercolor, and papers establishing provenance. Watercolor is 11.5 x 9 in.,mounted at the top edge to backing affixed with the label of Waterloo House, Mantle Department, Cockspur St., Pall Mall East, and inked 1888. Side underneath the painting is inked Presented to Caroline Heitmeyer approximately 50 yrs ago by "Nelson," an Indian Scout of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show., and Sha-Cha-Cha-Opogeo, Red Willow Fill the Pipe. Cabinet card is of John Nelson, "Scout, interpreter & Guide" published by Elliott and Fry of London during the Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show tour of England in 1887-1888. Penciled on verso Was Caroline Heitmeyer's friend at that time, he gave her this and the oil painting. John Young Nelson (1826-unk.) toured with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show as The Squaw Man, as he had taken a Sioux wife and fathered "half-breed" children who accompanied him and the Show across the United States and Europe. Nelson was born in Virginia but set out for adventure on the frontier as young man to escape his abusive father. He toiled on farms and a Mississippi River steamer before hooking up with a group of traders heading West from Missouri, where he encountered a band of Sioux whose lifestyle he greatly admired. Nelson learned their language and ways and was eventually adopted into the tribe. His knowledge of both white and Indian culture proved invaluable to many settlers making the journey West so he worked as a hired guide, most notably to Brigham Young and the group of Mormons who settled in Utah in 1847. Nelson later worked alongside a young William F. Cody as a scout at Fort McPherson in the late 1860s, which led to Cody casting him in one of his first stage productions, Attack on a Settler's Cabin, in which Nelson played the title settler and Cody his heroic rescuer. The act became a staple of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, and Nelson and his family toured with the show for many years. Provenance: Descended Directly in the Heitmeyer Family Condition: Cabinet card missing lower left corner and with soiling, staining, and flyspecking.
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