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Scarce and desirable ink signature, "Sitting Bull,” on an off-white 4.5 x 2.5 card, imprinted on the opposite side: "Randall House. This Hotel, which is located at Fort Randall, Dakota, has been built by the Post Trader, for the accommodation of all who visit the most pleasant Military Post on the Frontier. Although in the Indian Country, this Post is strongly garrisoned and safe from danger. Tourists and others will find it a pleasant place to visit." In very good to fine condition, with light soiling and a small stain, and small old mounting remnants on the reverse.
Includes a remarkable contemporary handwritten letter of provenance, signed "C. D. Pease," explaining his receipt of the autograph. In part: "I am enclosing you a Card of the Randall House South Dakota & on the back of it is Old Sitting Bull (Indians) own signature written by him. My wife's Bro. was clerk in the fort at Randall at the time Sitting Bull was a prisoner there, & he learned Sittingbull to write his name. he always wrote it in this same style. I have had it 28 years. I did have Sittingbull's Pipe & Tobacco pouch but some on[e] has gobbled them from me." Also accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from University Archives; plus a Sherwoods Spirit of America tag, one of America's leading specialists in Native American artifacts and historic Americana.
After Sitting Bull surrendered to federal forces at Fort Buford, he became a living symbol of the Native American Indian resistance. During his two years in captivity at Fort Randall, he achieved celebrity status as tourists and newspaper reporters flocked to see him. Certainly one of the most sought-after of all Western and Native American signatures.
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