Buffalo Meat Cheyenne War Chief Son Grandson Postcard Native American Baptist For Sale
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Buffalo Meat Cheyenne War Chief Son Grandson Postcard Native American Baptist:
$34.99
Buffalo Meat Cheyenne War Chief Son Grandson Postcard Native American Baptist Early printed postcard published by The American Baptist Home Mission Society depicting Buffalo Meat, identified as a longtime War Chief of the Cheyenne, shown with his son and grandson before a tipi. The caption notes his years held as a prisoner of war in Florida and his later connection to the Cheyenne mission established in 1895 by Rev. Robert Hamilton.
- Published by Bruce Kinney, Topeka, Kansas, for The American Baptist Home Mission Society
- Printed sepia halftone image with full descriptive caption on front
- Divided-back era, circa 1910s; unposted; the back carries a brief, unfinished pencil note ("dear sister ruth i thought i would write and let you know how" — it stops there)
- Ties to Cheyenne mission history and Buffalo Meat's period as a Fort Marion prisoner of war
This card depicts Buffalo Meat, a Southern Cheyenne war leader held as a prisoner at Fort Marion, Florida (1875–1878) and a recognized Plains Indian ledger artist whose drawings survive in the Massachusetts Historical Society and Oklahoma Historical Society; he later became a deacon in Baptist mission work. A genuinely documented, historically significant named subject.
ConditionPrinted halftone missionary postcard on card stock. Corner wear and light creasing, edge/handling soiling, pencil message on back; unposted. Image clear and fully legible.
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