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This copy from an original photograph shows Mary Good White in front of her family farm near Concordia, Kansas. Her daughter Sarah was captured by Cheyenne Indians on August 13, 1868 on the family homestead near the Republican River in northern, Kansas. For seven months Sarah is held in captivity until March of 1869 when General George Custer and troops from the Seventh and Nineteenth Kansas Cavalry rescues her.
Date: Between 1890 and 1899
Item Number: 505149
Call Number: Accn# 1998-220.01, #2
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 505149
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1890s
Military - Service - Army - Cavalry - 7th Cavalry
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
People - American Indians - Tribes - Cheyenne
People - Notable People - Custer, George Armstrong, 1839-1876
People - Women
Places - Regions - Northeast Kansas
Places - Rivers - Republican
Type of Material - Photographs
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