page_title: William Stinson Soule
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: William Stinson Soule / Career
caption_attribution_description: Arapaho camp View of Camp Showing Three Girls and Group of Men in Native Dress, One Man with Hairpipe Breastplate and Pipe-Tomahawk Outside Tipis; Tipis in Background 1867-75.[1] “The Soule album identifies this simply as an Arapaho camp. The tipis are in an open, flat, treeless plain. The soil is sandy. and the grass has either been worn away or cropped off by the Indian horse herds. Some firewood must be available nearby, as is seen from the log on which the women are seated. The Indians are dressed in their best clothes for the picture-making, but the three men on the right are indifferent to the work of the photographer, being absorbed in a gambling game” —Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, In: Wilbur Sturtevant Nye, Plains Indian raiders&#160;: the final phases of warfare from the Arkansas to the Red River, with original photographs by William S. Soule. University of Oklahoma Press, 1st edition, 1968, ISBN 0806111755, p338.
context_page_description: William Stinson Soule was a 19th-century photographer of the American West.
context_section_description: In 1865 Soule opened a photography studio and gallery in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. When his business was destroyed in a fire in early 1867 he moved west to Fort Dodge (United States Army Post) in Kansas where he found work as a clerk in the sutler's store and the following year moved on to Fort Supply in Indian Territory. In 1869 Soule became the post photographer at Fort Sill where he would remain for six years. Will Soule documented the construction of the fort, but is primarily known for his high quality portraits and photographs of Native American subjects.
caption: William S. Soule - Arapaho camp1
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