. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Ihr )i-ll(iii><loiif liiytr nil I 11 lliiiiili Minihniii Figure lo.âThe Yellowstone River near Fort Keogh, Montana. (roVVi-l/ 38^191; Smilli&uii/un plmln 79-5-^^-) red fingers. Two Indian camps are shown in the background, and the Indians, as would befit the atmosphere of a treaty council, are moving freelv through the military camp to the apparent unconcern of the military. The landscape of the Wichita Mountains from Medicine BlufTs (fig. 5) on the present-day Fort Sill reservation is noteworthy as a terrain sketch to anyone who h
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Ihr )i-ll(iii><loiif liiytr nil I 11 lliiiiili Minihniii Figure lo.âThe Yellowstone River near Fort Keogh, Montana. (roVVi-l/ 38^191; Smilli&uii/un plmln 79-5-^^-) red fingers. Two Indian camps are shown in the background, and the Indians, as would befit the atmosphere of a treaty council, are moving freelv through the military camp to the apparent unconcern of the military. The landscape of the Wichita Mountains from Medicine BlufTs (fig. 5) on the present-day Fort Sill reservation is noteworthy as a terrain sketch to anyone who has served at that post. I have ridden over this country many times, and the undulating prairie, the meandering of Medicine C;reek, the Bluffs them- selvesâover the highest of which (left centerground) the Apache Geronimo did not ride his horse with the 7th Cavalry in full cry behindâMount Hinds and lofty Mount Scott are remarkable in their accuracy when one considers that the painting must have been done from sketches made when Stieffel was on escort detail to the Indian Territorv in 1869. ^â ' " Detail and orientation check closely with map of Fort Sill, Oklahoma, sheet 6353 III NW, scale 1:25,000, Army Map Service. The two views of Fort Harker, Kansas (figs. 6, 7), now Ellsworth, must have been painted during 1870 and 1871 while Stieffel was on extra duty as a hospital attendant there. From an artistic standpoint they are the poorest of his work. His detail, however, more than compensates for any deficiencies as a draftsman and gives us an excellent concept of the physical layout and daily routine of a small post in the Southern Plains. The two views are from the east and south, and complement one another nicely. Headquarters, officers' quarters, and barracks, all of typical clapboard construction, are readily discernible, as are the stables, the latter being the long unfenes- trated buildings. Even the barrack privies, an out- door bake oven alongside a mess hall, a
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