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SKETCHBOOK
Introduction
Essay pt. 1
Signal Sketchbook pt. 2
Cultural Context pt. 3
The Artwork
The Duel 7
The Lancer 8-10d
Scenes 12-14
The Army Battle 15-16
The Red Cones 17-18
The Shield Bearer 19-21
The Rear Guard 22
The Riders 23-26
The Raid 27-28d
The Sioux final
The Story
Grizzly Five Hearts

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Page 27. This and the following three pages depict the daring theft of horses from the enemy. Before us lies part of the camp circle. The "tassels" on the tipis, says Philip Guyer, may be the buffalo tails which were often left on hides when the tipi covers were made. Within the camp horses mill around. Some, however,on the following page, 27d, upper left, are seen to be tethered for safety's sake to the doorway of the lodge, or to something within. These are the favorite steeds, the buffalo ponies and racers. Beyond, outside the camp, are the common run of horses.

To the right, overlooking the camp from beneath a hill, two men stand, gun in hand, clad in capote. Footprints leading from their side reveal how their comrade has gone into the camp, searching for the proper horse to steal. At length he has found it, a "medicine hat" pinto of the sort formerly ridden by the Nez Percé leader, the elder Looking Glass. So highly prized is the animal that, bedecked with feathers, it has been tethered to a stake within a lodge. The daring raider has cut away part of the tipi cover with the knife lying its base, and is seen, clad in capote, leading off his prize by the halter.

Page 27d. Again we see the encampment and the horses within it. Beyond, our raider, distinguished by his face paint, rides off on one horse, leading another.

Note the use of the war bridle, wrapped in the old-fashioned way about the lower jaw of his steed.