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C.C. Stotz Boudoir Card Waiting for the Issue, 

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Historical Memorabilia Start Price:425.00 USD Estimated At:600.00 - 900.00 USD
C.C. Stotz Boudoir Card Waiting for the Issue, 

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Auction Date:2009 Jun 24 @ 10:00 (UTC-04:00 : AST/EDT)
Location:6270 Este Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio, 45232, United States
verso with C.C. Stotz, El Reno, O.T. stamp, and titled in negative.

During the 1880s and early 1890s, as part of the rations owed by treaty to the Southern Cheyenne and Southern Arapaho people of the Darlington Agency, cattle were issued every two weeks in the various districts. Indian families would begin arriving early in the morning on “issue” days. Groups of friends would gather in the shade of trees on the hillside above the cattle pens to smoke, visit and await their turn at the issue. When a family’s name was called, the men would be waiting on horseback while the longhorn steer allotted to them was weighed, then driven out of the corral. As soon as it bolted over the prairie, the men would give chase, firing with pistols, rifles or arrows, until the animal was brought down. Depending upon the weapons available to each hunter, and his particular skill, a steer might run only a few yards from the pens before being killed or could escape to a distance of a mile or more. This was a tame echo of the tribes’ earlier adventures in hunting buffalo, but it provided enjoyment and entertainment to the spectators. 

Condition: Light soiling; near excellent.