Stanley
J. Morrow was a prominent photographer in the Dakota and Montana territories
who operated from 1868 through 1882. One collection of seventy stereographs
contains scenes photographed by Morrow between 1868 and 1881. It includes views
of Morrow's home and studio in Yankton, D.T., and military expeditions
including images of Captain George K. Sanderson's cleanup of the Little Bighorn
Battlefield in 1879, three years after the engagement.
This stereograph reads, "Photographed and Published by S.J. Morrow, Yankton, D.T." on one end and "Photographic Views from the Great North-West" on the other end. It is No. 10 in the collection and is listed as "Gen'l Custer's last stand, looking in the direction of the ford and the Indian village." It is the place where Custer's body was found and buried by soldiers and again by General George R. Crook's men, with the original "monument" of stones and timber.
No. 38 "Decorating the graves on Custer's Battle field." Captain Sanderson is standing. The sign on the headstone reads: "Col. Keogh (Myles W. Keogh) And 38 Soldiers Of Co I 7 Cav (Company I, Seventh Cavalry) Killed Here June 25, 1876." Corporal John Wild's headboard is behind the Keogh marker.
No. 39 "Unknown, showing several graves and the ridge where the last stand was made." There is wooden sign nailed on a post with lettering that reads: Unknown.
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