"APACHE KID’S BROTHER CURLY, JIM KINNEY, AND CAN-EL-HAA AS PRISONERS - ca. Oct. 12, 1890. Fantastic, original image with identical “Willard M. Burleson” rank, and confinement date of “March 21st – Oct. 12th 1890”. Previously un-known, identified “Apache Indian prisoners – No. 1 & No. 2 Jim Kinney and Wife – No. 3 Can-el-haa, San Carlos Apache Chief – No. 4 Wife of ‘Stove Pipe’ Medicine Man – No. 5 ‘Curly’ Brother of ‘Kid’ Renegade Apache” on the reverse. Also noted, “Curly bought in several months later about the last of August”. Curly is on the far right, wearing a fantastic traditional Apache feathered cap, Jim Kinney and his wife are on the far left. They are standing in front of what appears to be their camp. Pinholes at corners, minor fading, remnants of paper label upper right. Oversize Boudoir Cabinet card measures 6.5” by 8.5”. Sgt. Willard M. Burleson Collection.. . SET OF FORT UNION, N.M. (Sold separatly) - APACHE PRISONER CARDS FROM WILLARD M. BURLESON COLLECTION – ca. 1890. This group of 14 photographs includes 11 inscribed oversize cabinet cards showing Fort Union, N.M., and the 6th Cavalry troops, and also identifies several important Native American Apache Indians. These Apaches were considered renegades solely because they comprised the immediate family of the noted outlaw “Apache Kid”. The “Apache Kid” or Haskay-bay-nay-ntayl (man who will come to a mysterious end) was taken in as an orphan by noted Scout Al Sieber, eventually becoming a Scout himself, and then Sergeant. In 1887, after a drunken party, another Scout named Gon-Zizzie killed the Kid’s father, Togo-de-Chuz. This quickly lead to the Kid and his supporters killing Gon-Zizzie, and then traveling to his brother Rip’s camp, and killing him also. Taken as prisoners and disarmed on their return to the base by Sieber, they escaped by shooting Sieber in the foot, only to be re-captured and sent to Alcatraz. After his sentence was commuted from death, to life in prison, to ten years, to his full release in 1887 – he was charged by angry locals with the wounding of Sieber and received seven years in 1888. The “Apache Kid” and his band escaped again, killing two guards and returning to the mountains of South Arizona and Mexico, where he was hunted but never confirmed killed, for the next twenty years and beyond. Duplicates of these photographs have been observed in other collections, but the subjects were not identified, and the historical context was not established. The Apaches pictured were prisoners without walls, allowed to camp “in the Wolf Creek Valley below the post”. Later, “These Indians would travel with Companies C & H, 10th Infantry, when they departed Fort Union forever in February, 1891, for their new station at Fort Wingate.” An important set relating to the chase for the “Apache Kid” and the end of the Apache Wars THE SGT. WILLARD M. BURLESON PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION – 6TH U.S. CAVALRY - FROM FORT UNION, N.M. TO WOUNDED KNEE, S.D. – ca. 1887-1891. This historic archive of 19th century photogh offers a rare glimpse into the frontier life of a late Indian Wars soldier, Sgt. Willard M Burleson, Troop G, 6th Cavalry. There are 36 photographs overall, 22 of which are originally inscribed with Burleson’s signature, rank, and his own historical notes, spanning the Apache campaigns of Arizona and New Mexico, to Wounded Knee, South Dakota. The collection includes a rare un-published image of Fort Union, N.M., a series related to the attempted capture of the “Apache Kid” an ex-scout who became the Southwest’s most wanted renegade, and a series related to the infamous Wounded Knee campaign. These photographs all have an extremely unique historic provenance, besides the series that were dated, identified, and inscribed by Burleson himself over 120 years ago; there are numerous other Southwestern images from the Burleson Estate.Sgt. Burleson was born in Saginaw, Michigan in 1868, and enlisted as a private on May 2, 1886 in 6th Cavalry, Troop G, serving five years. Also enlisting in 1886, General John “Black Jack” Ketchum was serving in 6th Cavalry, Troop L, and participated in the same Apache Campaigns. After his return to Michigan, Burleson attended Medical School and eventually became the owner of the noted Burleson Sanitarium in Grand Rapids, MI., one of the largest sanitariums in the world during that time. In an interesting note, Willard Burleson III, a noted Brigadier-General at the Army’s Mission command Center of Excellence in Leavenworth, Kansas, is directly related to Sgt. Willard M. Burleson."

As seen, some wear as expected for age. Condition listed in description.