For your consideration is these Rare G. Trager 1890 Wounded Knee Battle Photos, framed. Seven original photographs are mounted in a matted wood frame. Provenance: From the John Kleinschmidt collection which was on loan to the C.M. Russell Museum from 1987 to 1993 and included in the "The Cowboy West: 100 Years of Photography 1992-1993 exhibit. The photographs were taken by George Trager of The Northwestern Photographic Company Chadron, Nebraska, who The Wounded Knee Massacre, also referred to as the Battle of Wounded Knee, was the massacre of nearly 300 Lakota Indians by the 7th Cavalry Soldiers of the Untied States Army and was part of what the U.S. military called the Pine Ridge Campaign. The event occurred on December 29th, 1890 near Wounded Knee Creek on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Trager was the first photographer on the scene after the Wounded Knee debacle, and took a number of photographs in January 1891 as US troops began collecting and burying bodies left on the field. A three day blizzard immediately after the tragedy had prevented the gathering of the victims. The photographs show scenes of the battlefield, officers of the US Army 7th Cavalry, Indian Scouts (both Arikara and Crow were part of the 7th Scouts), Oglala Chief Standing Bear and Northern Cheyenne Chief Hollow Wood, Gathering Up the Dead, Burial of the Dead, General Nelson A. Miles and Buffalo Bill Cody. The photographs are in nicely preserved condition. The matted wood frame is in very nice condition, slight scuffing noted on edges. Visible art measures 16"W x 22"L, frame is 18.75"W x 24.5"L x 1"D, weight is 5lb, 2oz.