Fight at Little Black Butte

Oil painting on pressed paper board "Fight at Little Black Butte" by Lauren Winfield Aldrich. The historic narrative painting depicts Native Americans driving pack mules through a ravine low. Mounted soldiers pursue with a wedge of attacking Native Americans on the proper right. Near the butte base are circled and burning covered.

Lauren Winfield Aldrich (1868-1938) served as an army scout in Nebraska and Wyoming at forts along the route of the Union Pacific Railroad construction. Aldrich was assigned to Fort Laramie, Fort Russell, Fort Fetterman, and Fort Kearny. He documented his regiment's skirmishes with the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Sioux Indians, as well as their dealings with the Pawnee scouts.