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DEADWOOD STAGE COACH.
Mammoth albumen print photograph of the Deadwood Stage, c.1990, 9 x 12 inches,

27 – 28 August 2021, 15:00 PDT
Los Angeles

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DEADWOOD STAGE COACH.

Mammoth albumen print photograph of the Deadwood Stage, c.1990, 9 x 12 inches, c.1890, lacking photographer's imprint, 8 inch horizontal closed tear to center right, framed.
Provenance: collection of Julia Cody Goodman, sister of Buffalo Bill (note on verso of frame).

The back of the frame reads: "The Famous Deadwood Stage Mail Coach, one of the earliest of the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show parts." The Coach pictured in this image was built by Abbott-Downey Company of Concord, NH in 1863. It was used in California, Eastern Wyoming and the Black Hills where it survived several robbery attempts. In 1876 the stage was used by General Crook in his campaign against the Indians, where it was abandoned in hostile territory after an attack. Buffalo Bill, at that time a scout for Crook, rescued the stage, and when he launched his Wild West show a short time later, he incorporated the coach into a larger spectacle about the west.

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