1880s Cabinet Image of Comanche Chief White Horse by Dave Rodocker

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1880s Cabinet Image of Comanche Chief White Horse by Dave Rodocker
Offered a rare B & W cabinet photo on photographer' mat D. Rodocker Winfield Kansas measuring approx. 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 whole body  image of a CHIEF WHITE HORSE (identified in white in the negative)   Image is bold and clear showing the chief IN FULL attire with feather bonnet, robe boots and holding a bow and two arrows.   Images of this rarity from the 1880s seldom exist. This photographic image was part of a collection purchased from a government Indian agent's estate who lived with his family in numerous mid western states in the 1880s through his death in the early 1900s.  He knew personally photographer David Rodocker who gave him this image along with others.  Many of the images have notes he wrote on the reverse and front and a few have actually been signed by the Indians pictured.  I have numerous images listed check them out.  They are very rare and some unknown. RODOCKER was the oldest established photographer in Cowley County, Kansas, and his headquarters were at Winfield,  In January 1877, Rodocker sold his Winfield studio and took his camera on the road to the Black Hills, spending the summer producing views of the mines and mining towns. He departed the Black Hills in October 1877, apparently heading south and passing through the Red Cloud Agency in northwestern Nebraska where he produced several additional photographs.
White Horse was a chief of the Kiowa. White Horse attended the council between southern plains tribes and the United States at Medicine Lodge in southern Kansas which resulted in the Medicine Lodge Treaty. Despite his attendance at the treaty signing he conducted frequent raids upon other tribes and white settlers. Follower of such elder chiefs as Guipago, Satanta and old Satank, he was often associated with Big Tree (or Ado-ete), this one too a young war leader in the Kiowa nation. In 1867 White Horse joined a war party of Comanches and Kiowas on a revenge raid against the Navajos, who were then living in exile on the reservation near Fort Sumner, New Mexico.  On June 12, 1870, White Horse led a raiding party on an attack on Fort Sill in Indian Territory and stole seventy-three mules. On June 22 in an attack on a cattle drive on the Chisolm Trail, White Horse killed and scalped two men, prior to the arrival of a cavalry detachment which drove them off.  White Horse took part in many raids, including the Warren Wagon Train Raid, on May 11, 1871 on Salt Creek Prairie in Texas, along with Satank, Satanta, Zepko-ete, Mamanti, Big Tree (and, perhaps, Guipago himself), but he wasn't arrested nor involved in the trial in Jacksboro. On April 20, 1872 Zepko-ete and Tsen-tainte, with about one hundred of their Kiowa warriors and Comanche allies, attacked a government wagon train at Howard Wells station, along the San Antonio - El Paso trail, killing 17 Mexicans and kidnapping a woman; two companies (A and H) of 9th Cavalry from Fort Clark, led by capt. N. Cooney and lt. F. R. Vincent, got the Indians, but were forced to retreat after suffering two casualties.  (lt. Vincent himself, deadly wounded, and a "Buffalo Soldier"; ten Indians (four in the assault on the wagon train and six in the fight against the "Buffalo Soldiers") were reported to have been killed. After Adobe Walls' fight, in June 1874, he joined Guipago and the Comanche under Quanah in the Red River War. The raiding would continue until April 19, 1875 when he and his band surrendered at Fort Sill.
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