COLLECTION NAME:
Bent-Hyde Papers
Record
File Name:
arbh11m1.tif
Collection Name:
Bent-Hyde Papers, 1905-1918
Collection Description:
This collection consists of original maps detailing locations of Indigenous nations in North America and military positions in areas such as Sand Creek and the Arkansas River. It includes correspondence between George Bent, a Cheyenne-American interpreter, George Hyde, a white historian, and George Grinnell, a white anthropologist while covering the years 1905-1918. In the interest of preserving and presenting the historical records, the University Libraries collects materials that document the perspectives presented by the creators. As a result, this collection contains objectionable depictions and language that do not reflect the current preferred terminology, or the values and norms of the University Libraries. CU Boulder Libraries acknowledges that it is located on the traditional territories and ancestral homelands of the Cheyenne, Arapaho, Ute and many other Native American nations. Their forced removal from these territories has caused devastating and lasting impacts. While the University of Colorado Boulder can never undo or rectify the devastation wrought on Indigenous peoples, we commit to improving and enhancing engagement with Indigenous peoples and issues locally and globally.
Work Title:
Platte Bridge fight
Alternative Title:
Map #14 George Bent's map of battle drawn from the position of the Indians looking south to the bridge
Alternative Title Type:
proper (transcribed from "Fourteen original maps of George Bent and George Hyde by Jean Afton")
Work Agent Name:
Bent, George, 1843-1918
Work Agent Role:
author
Work Agent Name:
Hyde, George E., 1882-1968
Work Agent Role:
author
Work Date:
1905/1918
Work Date Type:
creation
Inscription Text:
[Cataloger's note: Transcriptions come from a variety of resouces including legacy archival description and George Hyde's and George Grinnell's notes as documented by Jean Afton.] This is George Bent's map of the Platte Bridge fight. He shows the Platte river, the Bridge, the stage road, the stockade, and the wagon corral. He has drawn the map from the indigenous poeple's position north of the river, looking south. 1. on the head of a creek, northeast corner of the map, he writes: "Camp night before the battle." This is the Indigenous peoples camp. 2. southeast corner: "Where High-back-Wolf was Killed. There as a ranch near this spot which he does not show. 3. At the bridge, he markes "soldiers" both on the south and north banks of the river, and shows the "Stockade" on the south bank. 4. On the lower course of the camp creek he marks "line of Indians." 5. On the stage road, north of the river and west of the bridge he marks. "Casper killed here." (He always calls Lieut. Collins "Casper.") 6. Farther west along the road he shows another "Line of Indians. Another "Line of Indians is here, north of the road, behind the bluffs, which are not shown. 7. Farther west on the road he marks a circle to indicate the corraled wagons and marks it "where 22 soldiers killed." The number is indistinct and may be 25 or 28 or 23. 8. on the south side of the river near the corraled wagons: "Where Roman Nose's brother killed. 9. On the northwest corner of the map he writes "This is the way the indigenous people stood around when Casper came across to be killed." George E. Hyde. October, 1928.
Subject Term:
Cheyenne Nation--History--Sources
Subject Term:
Tsistsistas-History--Sources
Subject Term:
Indigenous peoples--Colorado--Maps
Subject Term:
Platte Bridge, Battle of, Wyo., 1865--Maps
Subject Term:
Cheyenne Nation--Wars, 1864
Subject Term:
Colorado--History--To 1876--Maps
Work Description:
Drawing of map depicting the Platte Bridge fight, including the Platte river, stage road, stockade, and wagon corral.
Work Type:
sketch maps
Work Type:
Cartographic
Relation:
Fourteen Original Maps of George Bent and George Hyde by Jean Afton
Relation Type:
references
Relation Identifier:
arbh23.pdf
Location Name:
University of Colorado Boulder Libraries Rare and Distinctive Collections
Location Type:
repository
Shelf Location:
Box 1 Folder 11
Image Rights:
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Image Source:
CU Boulder Online Finding Aid of Bent-Hyde Papers, 1820-1918
Image Measurement:
75844164
Image Measurement Type:
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Image Measurement Unit:
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Image Work Type:
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Platte Bridge fight
