Villa of Brule, the great hostile Indian camp on River Brule near Pine Ridge, S.D.

Author: Nathan Salsbury

Publisher: [1891?]

Series: Salsbury collection, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show.Edition/Format: Image : Photograph : Picture : English

Summary: A group of horses is gathered in the River Brule in the foreground near a Native American camp near Pine Ridge, South Dakota. A man stands on the bank of the river in the left midground. Numerous teepees are set up in the field in the background. 

Note: When a hostile Indian camp or village such as this one were found by U.S. frontier scouts, Indian slayers, Scalp hunters, and U.S. cavalry men were sent in to eliminate the Indians, thereby neutralizing the threat they posed.