Capture and Death of Sitting Bull 1891 New York canvas art 19th Century — a domestic

19th Century — a domestic portrait of the wartime president surrounded by his own

William Henry Harrison 1835

every signature copied with the reverence due men who pledged their lives and fortunes to a sentence whose ending none could yet read

within weeks

captured the year of his death

Capture and Death of Sitting Bull 1891 New York canvas art 19th Century — a domesticCapture and Death of Sitting Bull 1891 renders the final reckoning at Standing Rock, where Indian Police arrived before dawn to seize the Hunkpapa holy man and left him dead in the snow outside his own cabin. The scene reads as documentary indictment a treaty era closing with rifles drawn against the man who had outlasted Custer. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the