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Joseph Williams, Archives and Special Collections, Dickinson College
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Cropped, sized, and prepared for use by John Osborne, Dickinson College, September 9, 2013
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engraving
Original caption
Murder of Lieutenant Beever by Sioux Indians.
Source citation
Harper's Weekly Magazine, September 12, 1863, p. 577.
Source note
Cropped from the larger image, also available here.
Note: A romantic depiction of an unseen event. Lieutenant Beever was found with three arrows in his back, his dead horse beside him. He wore his hair so short that the Sioux could not scalp him, and instead took part of his facial hair. (Doreen Chaky, Terrible Justice: Sioux Chiefs and U.S. Soldiers on the Upper Missouri, 1854-1868 (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012), 167.)
Note: A romantic depiction of an unseen event. Lieutenant Beever was found with three arrows in his back, his dead horse beside him. He wore his hair so short that the Sioux could not scalp him, and instead took part of his facial hair. (Doreen Chaky, Terrible Justice: Sioux Chiefs and U.S. Soldiers on the Upper Missouri, 1854-1868 (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012), 167.)