Front:
HEAD C KCROWS
1880
Ey THE SMITNSONIAN
Back:
The Huffman Pictures
PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE OLD WEST
4ED-485
COPYRIGHT 1975 BY JACK COFFRIN, MILES CITY, MONTANA
CURTEICHCOLOR® 3-D NATURAL COLOR REPRODUCTIONS (REG.U.S.A.PAT. OFF.)
PLENTY COUPS, CROW CHIEF 1880
by C. M. Bell
(courtesy of the Smithsonian)
As early as 1875 young Chief Plenty Coups
wisely forecast the advantage of joining forces
with the whites against the Crow tribe's old
enemies, the Sioux. Admired for bravery in
battle in his early years and later, his skillful
bargaining with the whites, he emerged by 1887
as the first and only head chief of all the Crow
Indians. He died in 1923.
The hand colored photograph from which this
picture was made is on display at Coffrin's Old
West Gallery in Miles City, Montana.
