Tom Quick (The Indian Slayer) 'Early American'

These pics were taken from Tom Quick, Early American by Frederick W. Crumb, 1936 - Early American Settler vs. Indian Frontier Warfare Literature. 

The arms of Bury St Edmunds,

 ----:--The arms of Bury St Edmunds, from a manuscript presented to king Henry VI to commemorate his visit to the town in 1433-1434 (British Library, MS Harley 2278, f. 3v). The manuscript was likely produced under the supervision of celebrated late-medieval poet John Lydgate, who had translated from Latin into English the lives of St Edmund and St Fremund for the twelve-year-old king. Elsewhere in the book, the young Henry is shown praying at the shrine of St Edmund and receiving this same book from the monks of Bury.

A Lion and a Gladiator facing each other in the Colosseum while the Emperor of Rome looks on. (19th Century? Germany - Engraving).

 

Stonehenge, England Date [ca. 1900]. Identifier(s) H86.108/142

Fist of the North Star (Hokuto No Ken)

An all time great anime film and Television series. The brainchild of Tetsuo and Buronson. Tells the story of a post apocalyptic world in which only those who excel in the art of combat will survive. Tremendous storyline and martial arts sequences. Highly graphic and dramatic. (1984‐87). 

The Danites (Early American Frontier Mormon Church Thugs)

The Danites

Author: W.J. Morgan & Co.,

Publisher: [between 1860 and 1890]

Edition/Format:   Image : Graphic : Original artwork : Picture : No Linguistic Content

Publication: Popular graphic art print filing series (Library of Congress)

Summary: One scene showing group of men, with one man asking woman, “Married mum?,” and another scene showing woman replying, “No sir!”

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The Danites were the church’s hired assassins, disrupters, and enemy belligerents of the United States of America.

Spaniards Hunting Savages

 Spaniards hunting Indians.

Publisher: [published 1858]
Edition/Format: Image : Graphic : Original artwork : Picture : No Linguistic Content
Summary:
Soldiers under command of officers of Don Pedro de Avila chasing and killing Indians, 1519.

When Berlin Crowds Listened to Goebbels (1938)

 Photograph of crowds of Berliners listening to Joseph Goebbels’s speach. “Wide World Photo | Please watch your credit | 898658 | When Berlin crowds listened to Goebbels | Berlin, Germany. This was the scene as thousands of Berliners gathered in the Lustgarten Sept. 26 to listen to a speech by Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, who declared that he foresaw a peaceful solution of the Sudeten-German dispute “within a few days”. “I, as a man in the know of things”, he declared, “can tell you we neither can nor want to retreat, as the Fuehrer [sic] has pledged his word to support the Sudetens, but the solution is imminent”. N-10/6/38 (s)” — typed note attached to verso. “Received. Examiner reference library. Oct 12, 1938” — stamped on verso.

The Rise and Ruin of the Sect of Mormon

Title

The Rise and Ruin of the Sect of Mormon. (Page 1.)

Abstract

Prediction of the demise of Mormonism after the death of Joseph Smith.

(The Mormon Church [The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] was able to brainwash, and extort money from enough of its members to continue to the present day, over and beyond the death of Joseph Smith.)

Date Original

1844-09

Digital Publisher

Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University

Date Digital

2009-06

Owning Institution

Brigham Young University

Subject

Book of Mormon--History;

Genre

Periodicals; 

Romans 6:23 (Heretical Implications)

I was handed this pamphlet today by a mysterious Hispanic woman at a S. Florida bus stop. Having read the Bible a number of times, I curiously decided to look it over. The page that stood out to me the most was the on on the left that reads. "For the wages of sin is death." (Romans 6:23). Now mind you, the Bible does say that, but it is referring to a metaphorical "spiritual death" in the afterlife, namely in Hell, or "the grave," which is comparable to the Greeks concept of "Hades." Anyhow, there are many nutty, wild-eyed, buffoonish, heretical, maniacal, and hopelessly ignorant zealots that believe that this very Bible verse advocates for, and justifies outright murder against people who "sin," namely against the God and Jesus of the Hebrew Bible, which is an extremely bad interpretation of the Bible.

Golgo 13: An all-time great Japanese animated feature.

 A man hires superhumans to eliminate brutal Golgo, the paid assassin who killed his son.

Initial release: May 7, 1983 (Japan)
Director: Osamu Dezaki
Japanese: Golgo 13
Story by: Takao Saito
Cast: Tetsurō Sagawa, Gorō Naya, Toshiko Fujita , Daisuke Gōri, Kiyoshi Kobayashi, (The fourth photo is from an original comic book.)

New World Order Comix : The Saga of White Will (1993)

Description from Stormfront. Org, the European nationalist/separatist organization:

New World Order Comix

The Saga of White Will

"New World Order Comix - The Saga of White Will is an underground comic published by the White nationalist organization, National Alliance.

A comic with the appeal to White youths was an idea of Dr. William Pierce, the chairman of the National Alliance.

In late 1991 Alliance members Kevin Strom and Will Williams worked with Dr. Pierce to developed a story line which centered on a White teenager’s plight in an interracial school system."

This morbidly entertaining 1993 comic book is the brain child of Dr. William Luther Pierce, the far-right founder of the National Alliance. Dr. Pierce also penned 'The Turner Diaries' (1978) and 'Hunter' (1989). Dr. Pierce's books and literature are important because of their influence on historical events, as well as their capacity to ignite the free speech debate.

Spaniards Hunting (Panamanian) Indians

Spaniards hunting Indians.
Publisher: [published 1858]
Edition/Format: Image : Graphic : Original artwork : Picture : No Linguistic Content
Summary:
Soldiers under command of officers of Don Pedro de Avila chasing and killing Indians, 1519.

Adolf Hitler's Private Art Collection (1936)

 

Katalog der Privat-Gallerie Adolf Hitlers.

Author:	Third Reich Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher:	[ca. 1936]
Edition/Format:	Image : Graphic : Photograph : Picture : German
Summary:	Album of 74 reproductions of paintings and two tapestries in Adolf Hitler's private art collection including portraits of his mother and father, his cousin Geli Raubal, his driver Streck (dated 1936). Also portraits of Hindenburg, Frederick the Great, Richard Wagner and Bismarck. Includes reproductions of works by Lucas Cranach the Elder, Canaletto, Spitzweg, Defregger, Seitz, Franz von Stuck, Rudolf Epp, and others.

Jack the Viper ( Deeming the Murderer) 1892

 

Deeming the murderer

Author:	F Bresenthal
Publisher:	1892.
Series:	Victorian Patents Office Copyright Collection.
Edition/Format:	Image : Graphic : Photograph : Picture
Summary:	Photograph of two sketches of Frederick Deeming, portraying him as "Jack the Viper." He wears a long coat with fur trim and a top hat. Text at lower edge of image reads: "As seen in Whitechapel 1888" and "Jack-the Viper is Deeming from photo 1891."

Some Revised Notes on Gangstalking

Gangstalking is real and it is deadly.

Emmanuel Isaiah Smith

Gangstalking is not what its title sounds like. It is a vast, multi-layered, campaign styled co-op that is a clandestine, semi-militant militia operation that operates as a source of subversion, a constant danger, and disruption to its target, otherwise known as a targeted individual. This program seeks to recruit people who are likely to act in blind obedience to serve as its gangstalkers. This covert population control operation operates in NATO countries and presents itself as something other than a hate-crime and a depopulation protocol. The true progenitors of gangstalking can be traced back to the late 19th-century. During the American Reconstruction period (1863-77), terrorist groups like the Ku-Klux-Klan, the Knights of the White Camelia, the Red-Shirts, and the White League conducted open-air, community based, police supervised harassment programs, mostly against freedmen and their supporters. Later, similar programs that were initiated in the 1960s and 70s, such as the CIA and FBI programs MK-Ultra and COINTELPRO (Operation Hoodwink,) used the tradition and the blueprint that was started by the reconstruction era terrorist groups to systematically disrupt the New Ku-Klux-Klan, the New Left, the Hippie Movement, the Black Panthers, dissident Puerto-Rican groups, and Pro-communism elements that existed here in the United States. The CIA and FBI have since disavowed the above mentioned programs. 

In the 1980s and 90s, the U.S. military, along with the FBI, ATF, U.S. Marshalls, and similar federal law-enforcement groups developed tracking and subversion methods that bore mirror-like similarities to the aforementioned disruption programs, namely, to apprehend violent criminals, and terrorists. Gangstalking began as a covert operation, but like its progenitors, it will soon be exposed and eradicated. Nowadays, gangstalking is perpetrated either knowingly or unknowingly by governmental, corporate, and religious elements, including Fusion Centers and private security firms. Based on my research, experiences and beliefs, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a proven racketeering and espionage entity, with a presence in 161 countries, incorporates the use of hired and non-hired thugs, goons, and derelicts, to harass people. This church has a past that is riddled with racial controversies, and is a major culprit in the gangstalking practice, up to and including murders and assassinations. I believe that this institution uses covert tracking, subversion, espionage, assassination, and other means of manipulating society as a way of artificially and fraudulently sustaining itself as executing God’s will upon the earth and believes it is always correct in its above-the-law actions. 

On this channel, I focus on capturing live interactions between myself and the gangstalkers themselves, mostly in the way of me capturing their synchronized (vehicular and otherwise) obstruction of my movements, as well as synchronized public-service vehicles and personnel, and intrusive space-crowding in synchronized units against me as I move about. Please be informed that gangstalking does not stop at the street level. Biological attacks, the constant containment of the target, animal harassment, workplace mobbing, burglary and vandalism, food contamination, forced police encounters, illegal search and seizure, street violence, vehicular harassment, scent harassment, noise harassment, the exposure of the target to contagious diseases, computer and account hacking, illegal and highly abusive uses of corporate and governmental systems, software, and databases, systemic destruction of interpersonal relationships, slander and character defamation, and other horrifying components make up this program; and based on my research, the “scorched earth” policy, a war tactic which was banned under the 1977 Geneva Conventions, is used against the targeted individual, turning his very surroundings, be they human, animal, consumable, vehicular, electronic, legal, utility, or appliance, into weapons against him. 

Due to limitations in my present personal situation, I can only document street interactions, which still display many of the above mentioned gangstalking tactics. Visit the following official U.S.A. government, and Wikipedia links for information on similar programs that have existed in the United States, namely the activities of the Ku-Klux-Klan, the Knights of the White Camelia, and the White League, as well as COINTELPRO and MK-Ultra, all of which are the progenitors to gangstalking.

The Ku-Klux-Klan : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan#Activities

The Knights of the White Camelia : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_of_the_White_Camelia

The Red-Shirts : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Shirts_(United_States)

The White League : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_League COINTELPRO : https://vault.fbi.gov/cointel-pro

Operation Hoodwink : https://vault.fbi.gov/…/cointel-pro-hoodwink-part-01-o…/view

MK-Ultra : https://www.cia.gov/…/docume…/cia-rdp90-00965r000100150073-8

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints : Article 1 : https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2019/12/17/mormon-church-reportedly-amassed-100-billion-fund-for-second-coming-of-christ/?fbclid=IwAR0FxNdVKkNxfI4lVjaQJ_3l1s0u2uiPPTQzbw4UEmo3RmYYuYN-8SQg9rA#789c377e6a7b

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints : Article 2 : https://www.newsweek.com/mormon-church-stockpiled-100-billion-intended-charities-misled-lds-members-whistleblower-says-1477809?fbclid=IwAR2zugPHlV8i1L4RjRrI3DLFAEgxIuI4FtIQM7zi_jD1DDCD1tGtRthVgms

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day saints : Article : 3 : https://www.npr.org/2019/12/18/789218067/whistleblower-says-mormon-church-abuses-its-tax-exempt-status?fbclid=IwAR3X_p8MUla-dZnAD96mVf02JvYaL_bZJXsbozb8oWn0FkmefkXCe90S7zg

Sincerely, Your host, Emmanuel Isaiah Smith (E. I. Smith) 9/14/2020

Some Revised Notes on Gangstalking

Gangstalking is real and it is deadly.

Emmanuel Isaiah Smith

Gangstalking is not what its title sounds like. It is a vast, multi-layered, campaign styled co-op that is a clandestine, semi-militant militia operation that operates as a source of subversion, a constant danger, and disruption to its target, otherwise known as a targeted individual. This program seeks to recruit people who are likely to act in blind obedience to serve as its gangstalkers. This covert population control operation operates in NATO countries and presents itself as something other than a hate-crime and a depopulation protocol. The true progenitors of gangstalking can be traced back to the late 19th-century. During the American Reconstruction period (1863-77), terrorist groups like the Ku-Klux-Klan, the Knights of the White Camelia, the Red-Shirts, and the White League conducted open-air, community based, police supervised harassment programs, mostly against freedmen and their supporters. Later, similar programs that were initiated in the 1960s and 70s, such as the CIA and FBI programs MK-Ultra and COINTELPRO (Operation Hoodwink,) used the tradition and the blueprint that was started by the reconstruction era terrorist groups to systematically disrupt the New Ku-Klux-Klan, the New Left, the Hippie Movement, the Black Panthers, dissident Puerto-Rican groups, and Pro-communism elements that existed here in the United States. The CIA and FBI have since disavowed the above mentioned programs. 

In the 1980s and 90s, the U.S. military, along with the FBI, ATF, U.S. Marshalls, and similar federal law-enforcement groups developed tracking and subversion methods that bore mirror-like similarities to the aforementioned disruption programs, namely, to apprehend violent criminals, and terrorists. Gangstalking began as a covert operation, but like its progenitors, it will soon be exposed and eradicated. Nowadays, gangstalking is perpetrated either knowingly or unknowingly by governmental, corporate, and religious elements, including Fusion Centers and private security firms. Based on my research, experiences and beliefs, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a proven racketeering and espionage entity, with a presence in 161 countries, incorporates the use of hired and non-hired thugs, goons, and derelicts, to harass people. This church has a past that is riddled with racial controversies, and is a major culprit in the gangstalking practice, up to and including murders and assassinations. I believe that this institution uses covert tracking, subversion, espionage, assassination, and other means of manipulating society as a way of artificially and fraudulently sustaining itself as executing God’s will upon the earth and believes it is always correct in its above-the-law actions. 

On this channel, I focus on capturing live interactions between myself and the gangstalkers themselves, mostly in the way of me capturing their synchronized (vehicular and otherwise) obstruction of my movements, as well as synchronized public-service vehicles and personnel, and intrusive space-crowding in synchronized units against me as I move about. Please be informed that gangstalking does not stop at the street level. Biological attacks, the constant containment of the target, animal harassment, workplace mobbing, burglary and vandalism, food contamination, forced police encounters, illegal search and seizure, street violence, vehicular harassment, scent harassment, noise harassment, the exposure of the target to contagious diseases, computer and account hacking, illegal and highly abusive uses of corporate and governmental systems, software, and databases, systemic destruction of interpersonal relationships, slander and character defamation, and other horrifying components make up this program; and based on my research, the “scorched earth” policy, a war tactic which was banned under the 1977 Geneva Conventions, is used against the targeted individual, turning his very surroundings, be they human, animal, consumable, vehicular, electronic, legal, utility, or appliance, into weapons against him. 

Due to limitations in my present personal situation, I can only document street interactions, which still display many of the above mentioned gangstalking tactics. Visit the following official U.S.A. government, and Wikipedia links for information on similar programs that have existed in the United States, namely the activities of the Ku-Klux-Klan, the Knights of the White Camelia, and the White League, as well as COINTELPRO and MK-Ultra, all of which are the progenitors to gangstalking.

The Ku-Klux-Klan : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan#Activities

The Knights of the White Camelia : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_of_the_White_Camelia

The Red-Shirts : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Shirts_(United_States)

The White League : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_League COINTELPRO : https://vault.fbi.gov/cointel-pro

Operation Hoodwink : https://vault.fbi.gov/…/cointel-pro-hoodwink-part-01-o…/view

MK-Ultra : https://www.cia.gov/…/docume…/cia-rdp90-00965r000100150073-8

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints : Article 1 : https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2019/12/17/mormon-church-reportedly-amassed-100-billion-fund-for-second-coming-of-christ/?fbclid=IwAR0FxNdVKkNxfI4lVjaQJ_3l1s0u2uiPPTQzbw4UEmo3RmYYuYN-8SQg9rA#789c377e6a7b

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints : Article 2 : https://www.newsweek.com/mormon-church-stockpiled-100-billion-intended-charities-misled-lds-members-whistleblower-says-1477809?fbclid=IwAR2zugPHlV8i1L4RjRrI3DLFAEgxIuI4FtIQM7zi_jD1DDCD1tGtRthVgms

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day saints : Article : 3 : https://www.npr.org/2019/12/18/789218067/whistleblower-says-mormon-church-abuses-its-tax-exempt-status?fbclid=IwAR3X_p8MUla-dZnAD96mVf02JvYaL_bZJXsbozb8oWn0FkmefkXCe90S7zg

Sincerely, Your host, Emmanuel Isaiah Smith (E. I. Smith) 9/14/2020

Me in front of the White House located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC on August 2nd 2016. 2 DAYS AGO Photo

 

Gettysburg Illustration

Gettysburg. : Repulse of Longstreet's assault.

Author: John B Bachelder; James Drummond Ball; James Walker; Henry Bryan Hall Publisher: [Boston] : Published by James Drummond Ball, Boston, Mass., [1876] Edition/Format: Image : Graphic : Original artwork : Picture : English

Summary:

Subject: Image of the Battle of Gettysburg during Pickett's Charge on the third day of the battle, July 3, 1863. Wounded and dead men and horses lie in the field as soldiers attack from all sides behind them. Flames and smoke fill the sky in the distance.

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September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001

 Title: September 11 terrorist attacks, 2001

Call Number; OSOS_0040

Summary: Color view of Manhattan from the rooftop of 380 Cozine Avenue moments before the World Trade Center collapse, showing towers burning but still standing; trees, rooftops, apartment buildings, and two smokestacks in foreground; date incorrectly printed on verso as 10/SEP/01.

Date: 2001

Format: still image

Arma Christi

 Arma Christi, or the Weapons of Christ. This image shows a figurative Christ after his crucifixion. (Possibly him surviving somehow?)

This image is from a Dutch medieval manuscript and shows a living Christ either after the Resurrection, or possibly after the crucifixion itself. 

Might is Right, or Survival of the Fittest

A Nordic themed cover for Ragnar Redbeard's 1890 book, 'Might is Right.' This book is the quintessential consequentialist and Social Darwinist work of philosophy. 

The Scalp Industry

The Scalp Industry 

(From a University of Virginia webpage.)

Although the origins of the practice of scalping may be lost in the nebulous hinterlands of the past, the industry of scalp hunting has a specific and documented history. Although some of the particulars may be shrouded in rumors, the scalp bounty laws instituted a peculiar economic venture between the Mexican government and, primarily, American citizens. Between 1835 and the 1880s, the Mexican authorities paid private armies to hunt Native Americans, paying per kill and using scalps as receipts. The practice began when the Mexican government could no longer provide adequate protection to its citizens from the marauding Apaches and Comanches. The natives rode down from the U.S. killing peons, kidnapping women, and stealing livestock and then would escape back over the border. Because the Mexican military was unable to effectively ward off the threat over such a large expanse and because the Mexican farmers either could not afford or were forbidden to possess arms, the government had to look to alternative methods of suppressing native violence.

Bounty Laws

Sonora was the first state to enact a scalp bounty law; in 1835, offering 100 pesos for the scalps of braves (with a peso roughly equal to an American silver dollar). An American named James Johnson sparked the boom period in 1837 when he fired a concealed canon at close range on unarmed Apaches. The blast tore into Apache warriors as well as women and children, and Johnson and his troops swarmed into the mass of natives, killing and scalping. While this event occurred in Hidalgo County, New Mexico, the scalps were cashed in Sonora, and the entire incident proved how profitable scalp hunting could be. It also flamed native animosity towards both Mexicans and Anglos, encouraging more raids and greater violence (a cycle that continued throughout this era). Soon afterward, Chihuahua enacted a similar law offering a graded bounty: $100 for braves; $50 for squaws; $25 for children under fourteen (although the latter two were ostensibly for live captives). While the callous nature of this business might have limited the number of participants, the Panic of 1837 had left many pioneers and miners strapped for money, and scalp hunting offered a quick profit for men trying to reach California, and the bounty of one Indian was worth more than many Mexicans or Anglos could earn in a year. It also provided financial rewards for a conflict that had begun before a price had been set on Indian blood.

The system was temporarily abandoned, but in 1841 it was revived due to continuos raiding; one Comanche raiding party killed 300 Mexicans and seized over 18,000 head of livestock (as well as countless women and children). The situation continued to worsen for the Mexican authorities, and some historians have suggested that the natives actually "harvested" victims, leaving behind enough survivors and resources so that they could raid again. At one point, the situation had gotten so bad that Apaches were killing Mexicans on the streets of Chihuahua City during the middle of the day. In 1843 the authorities in Chihuahua tried to pit natives tribes against each other and offered Apache tribes a stipend if they would take the knife to the Comanches and stop raiding the state. This plan obviously failed- the Apaches did take the stipend, but began raiding Sonora instead (essentially the Mexicans were paying the tribe to raid other Mexicans)- however, it reveals the desperation of the Mexican government. By 1845, the scalp bounty had be reinstated yet again, and Gov. Don Angel Trias of Chihuahua put out a $9000 reward on the chief of the Apaches- Don Santiago Querque. At this point Querque/Kirker began working for the government scalping the natives that recently had been his allies.

After the Mexican-American War

Ironically, the Mexican peoples finally received relief from the Apache and Comanche raids when the U.S. declared war on Mexico; the U.S. soldiers spent their spare time chasing and hunting the natives. However, without the protection of Kirker and the other Anglos, Chihuahua was again besieged and in 1847 raised the price of scalps to $200. After the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, most of the Mexican states revived their scalping bounties again in preparation for more raids (there is little mention of the discontinuation of these bounties- I would speculate though that after the immediate threat was gone they were repealed until the attacks resumed). In 1849, Chihuahua's "Ley Quinto," which would remain on the books until 1886, passed setting a price of $150 for live women and children, $200 for the scalps of warriors, and $250 for live warriors. Most professionals though felt that the extra $50 did not justify the increased risk and so traded in "receipts" only. Durango passed similar laws the same year, and in 1850 Sonora set the price at $150 for warriors and $100 for women and children under fourteen. By mid-1850 Chihuahua and Sonora had included the Seri Indians on their hit lists too. The details of the scalp bounty laws reveal that this wretched business was indeed a business with its own self-policing practices. States, to prevent fraud, defined "scalps" to include one or both ears or the crown (a fresh scalp could be stretched before it was dried and cut into up to a dozen "scalps"). Regulatory committees were also established to examine scalps, but these were often bought off so that the scalps of children were purchased as adults, etc. (As a brief aside, a method of scalping and preserving the receipts was dictated by several of the scalp hunters. In James Kirker's party the duties were relegated to the Shawnees in the group who would cut around the crown and then sit with their feet on the shoulders of the victim and yank the trophy from its place of origin. The scalps were then sprinkled with salt and tied to poles to dry so that they would not deteriorate before they could be sold.)

The rather liberal payment policies of the local authorities made the scalp industry highly profitable. Indian hunters could keep any livestock or loot they recovered, civilians, soldiers, Mexican nationals, and foreigners were all eligible, and unquestioning inspectors all enticed unscrupulous men into this business. Mexican scalps were just as good as Indians, the scalps of women and children were bought for $100 (although the law made no provisions for this), and the bounties were advertised both in Mexico and North of the Rio Grande. Many of the scalp hunters were former Texas Rangers or forty-niners searching for quick cash. Some of the more famous include Major Michael Chevallie, James Kirker, Capt. Michael Box, John Glanton, and John Dusenberry. Other Americans also participated for a different type of payment; the state of Coahuila promised land to groups of Seminoles and a group of run-away slaves led by John Horse (Juan Caballo) in exchange for their services as Indian hunters.

Boom Time

The years of 1849-1850 were the true boom time, but an industry like this can obviously get out of hand (if it didn't begin by being out of hand). From the accounts it seems that no one in the South-west was safe during that year. The recent war with Mexico and the dark hair of the Mexican farmers made the peons easy targets when Indian scalps became scarce or too dangerous to acquire. Scalpers also began slaughtering any natives they could run down, including peaceful tribes like the Pimas and Yumas. Kirker and Box supposedly made rather large profits hunting agricultural tribes along the Rio Grande and Sierra Madre. Groups would also masquerade as natives and raid local villages, an act that served a dual purpose. It reinforced the necessity of the bounty laws and provided scalps that could be then sold to the governors responsible for protecting the village. The authorities did begin to notice that whenever Glanton or other hunting parties passed through a region, Indian activity always increased; a fact that led to many hunters being run out of Mexico and eventually helped to ruin the industry. Scalping as a business peaked that winter when the natives were driven out of the mountains in search of food; in one raid in the Big Bend country Glanton supposedly took 250 scalps (a fact that doesn't appear in Chamberlain's account, so it may have been another scalper). By that spring though, Chihuahua alone had paid out over $17,000 to scalp hunters. Many of the Mexican states found that they did not have the money to pay the scalping parties or that the expenditures were growing to a point where they would soon be bankrupt- another element that helped bring an end to the trade.

Bust

Scalp hunting was a high risk industry beyond just the battles required to attain scalps, and it eventually took its toll on the hunters. Some native chiefs began offering bounties for the scalps of Mexicans and Anglos as a retaliatory effort; Chief Gomez set the price at $1000 each after a similar bounty was put on his locks. Scalpers even began scalping other Indian hunters; payment could be collected from the natives if the Mexicans wouldn't accept the scalps. In one gruesome hunting party comprised of Mexicans and Kickapoo Indians, a dispute between the two constituencies arose, and the Mexicans scalped (and redeemed) all of their native hunting (former) allies. By the spring of 1850, the hunters were facing a depletion of their resources, and many were being run out for their indiscretions with the Mexicans they were supposedly protecting. Glanton found a reward on his head in Chihuahua and relocated to Sonora before the Yumas killed him. Both Kirker and Box were run out of Chihuahua and Durango and ended up in California. Although the laws stayed on the books until the 1880s, the industry as such had run its course; violent confrontation continued in the guise of the Indian Wars until most of the tribes were subdued and confined to reservations.

Five Dollars a Scalp (1975)

The Google Books review for the 1975 American-Indian Frontier War period book, 'Five Dollars a Scalp.' (Two different covers for the same book.)

"Five dollars a scalp presents the Indians' side of American history as perhaps never before in connection with a notorious Indian masacre--in some ways our nation's most historic massacre by Indians. The attack occurred on August 30, 1813, at Fort Mims, Alabama, and within a short time an estimated 1,000 Creek Indians had scalped and burned 370 or more men, wome, and children."--Jacket. 

The Only Solution of the Mormon Problem (1871) by Hal Coffin (Original Print) - Obtained from the Library of Congress Photographs and Prints Collection

 Brigham Young (The 19th century second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) and his wives are in a state of unrest, anarchy, confusion, and chaos.

The only solution of the Mormon problem (1871)

 

About this Item

Title

The only solution of the Mormon problem

Contributor Names

Coffin, Hal, artist

Created / Published

[1871]

Brigham Young and his Wives in a State of Chaos and Anarchy.