Fifth Annual Gold Discovery Day Pageant Custer S.D. 1927
O'Neill, NE: O'Neill Photo Company, 1927. Panorama silver gelatin photograph [18 cm x 90 cm] / [7" x 35.5"] Title and photographer in the negative. Strong contrasts. Gentle wear at extremities. Item #9873
Excellent panorama photograph of the Gold Discovery Day Pageant participants including President Calvin Coolidge, The Black Horse Troop of the 4th Cavalry, and a group of Oglala Sioux. This long-running annual celebration is in honor of the gold discovery by George Custer and his troops of the 7th Cavalry in 1874 that set off the Black Hills Gold Rush.
"Fifty-one years after the battle of the Little Big Horn, in which General George A. Custer made his famous 'last stand,' the Oglala Sioux, among whom will be 20 survivors of that disastrous sortie of Custer's cavalry, will bestow upon President Calvin Coolidge the highest honors within the scope of the Indian nation. The ceremony will be very brief in accordance with the express desires of the President. With 300 Sioux in full regalia as a background. Chiefs Crazy Horse and Kills-a-Hundred will address President Coolidge in the Sioux dialect, while interpreters will explain their words to the chief executive and the listening crowd." - Queen City Mail (07/27/1927).
Price: $500.00