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Big Cow

Big Cow

Arapaho

 

 

Here's an Indian identified at another website as Spotted Tail:

The man with the upside-down rifle is an Arapaho named Big Cow or "Small Cow Heap". I think this is a Chamberlain or Duhem Brothers photograph, but he was also photographed by Will Soule. Big Cow was reportedly the slayer of Major Elliot at the Washita. Here's a comparison:

Big Cow Composite

— Bob / Buffaloman

 

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