{"product_id":"1874-homer-waiting-for-a-bite-custer-black-hills-harpers-weekly-aug-22","title":"1874 Homer Waiting for a Bite · Custer Black Hills — Harper's Weekly Aug 22","description":"1874 Homer Waiting for a Bite · Custer Black Hills — Harper's Weekly Aug 22\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · August 22, 1874\nComplete Issue + Supplement Pages · New York\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nWinslow Homer's boy lying in the summer grass, fishing line in the water, waiting for a bite — one of the most iconic prints Homer ever contributed to Harper's. And on the same pages: a map of the gold regions of the Black Hills explored by Custer's expedition — the document that set the Great Sioux War in motion. Bismarck's assassination attempt. Nast on the Cardinal's hat. Making hay across a double-page supplement centerfold. This is August 22, 1874 — and it holds the seeds of Little Bighorn.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🖼️ THE MAIN ISSUE\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🎨 WINSLOW HOMER — \"WAITING FOR A BITE\"\nFull page. One of Winslow Homer's most celebrated and beloved Harper's Weekly prints — a boy lying flat in the summer grass at the edge of a pond or stream, hat over his face against the sun, fishing line trailing in the water, waiting. It is a perfect image: the patience of childhood, the weight of a summer afternoon, the slight drama of what might come. Homer made many images of boys fishing, but this is the one that stays — the stillness, the suspension, the feeling of time stopped in the heat. For Winslow Homer collectors, American art enthusiasts, summer nostalgia collectors, and anyone who has ever waited for a fish to bite.\n\n🗺️ HALF PAGE MAP — \"THE GOLD REGIONS OF THE BLACK HILLS, EXPLORED BY GENERAL CUSTER'S EXPEDITION\"\nStop here. This map may be the most historically significant single page in this entire run of Harper's Weekly. In the summer of 1874, General George Armstrong Custer led a military expedition into the Black Hills of Dakota Territory — land that the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 had guaranteed to the Lakota Sioux as part of the Great Sioux Reservation, forbidden to white settlement. Custer's expedition confirmed what many had suspected: there was gold in the Black Hills. His dispatches and reports published in the press — including this map in Harper's Weekly — triggered the Black Hills Gold Rush, which brought tens of thousands of illegal white prospectors onto Lakota land. The United States government's attempt to buy or seize the Black Hills led directly to the Great Sioux War of 1876–77 and the Battle of Little Bighorn, where Custer and over 260 of his men were killed on June 25, 1876. This map — published in August 1874 — is a primary document of the events that caused that war. For Western history collectors, Custer history researchers, Lakota Sioux history scholars, Black Hills history enthusiasts, and anyone who understands the causal chain from this map to Little Bighorn — this half page carries extraordinary historical weight.\n\n📰 FRONT PAGE — \"THE LITTLE VAGRANT\"\nFull front page — a street child, a vagrant, rendered with Harper's characteristic sympathy for those outside the protective structures of Gilded Age society. The \"little vagrant\" was a recurring Victorian figure — the orphaned or abandoned child making their own way in the urban world.\n\n🎨 FULL PAGE — THOMAS NAST: \"WHO OUGHT TO HAVE THE CARDINAL'S HAT IN AMERICA?\"\nA full-page Nast cartoon on the question of which American Catholic bishop or archbishop should become a Cardinal — a debate that was intensely political in 1874, when the question of Catholic influence in American public life was one of the most contentious cultural flashpoints of the Gilded Age. Nast was famously suspicious of Catholic institutional power and brought his characteristic force to this debate.\n\n🔫 TWO QUARTER-PAGE PORTRAITS — BISMARCK AND HIS ASSAILANT\n· **Bismarck on the Promenade at Kissingen** — On July 13, 1874, Eduard Kullmann fired at Otto von Bismarck, Germany's Iron Chancellor and architect of German unification, at the spa town of Bad Kissingen, wounding his hand. Bismarck escaped serious injury, but the attack shocked Europe. Harper's documents both the man and the moment.\n· **Franz Edward Ludwig Kullmann, Bismarck's Assailant** — The portrait of the man who tried to kill the most powerful figure in European politics.\n\n🗡️ HALF PAGE — \"THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF BISMARCK\"\nThe scene of the assassination attempt illustrated — Kullmann's shot, the crowd, the wounded chancellor. A primary document of one of the great political near-misses of the Gilded Age.\n\n🌲 HALF PAGE — \"HUNTING GROUNDS OF THE KING OF ITALY\"\nThe royal hunting preserves of King Victor Emmanuel II — Italian monarchy, aristocratic sporting culture, and the great forests of the Italian peninsula rendered for American readers.\n\n🗼 HALF PAGE — \"A PARIS SKETCH — SCENE IN THE CHAMPS ELYSÉES\"\nStreet life on the most famous avenue in the world — the Third Republic's Paris, nine years after Haussmann, the summer crowds on the Champs Elysées.\n\n👗 TWO-THIRDS PAGES — \"THE OLD STYLE (1794)\" AND \"THE NEW STYLE (1874)\"\nAn eighty-year fashion comparison — women's dress at the end of the 18th century versus the fashions of 1874. The evolution of silhouette, fabric, and social meaning across eight decades of women's fashion, rendered in parallel illustrations. For fashion history collectors and women's cultural history enthusiasts.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📄 THE SUPPLEMENT PAGES\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🌾 DOUBLE-PAGE CENTERFOLD — \"MAKING HAY\"\nThe supplement's visual centerpiece — a large double-page illustration of haymaking from a painting by Paul (possibly Jean-Paul Laurens or another leading French academic painter). Two figures in a summer field, the hay gathered around them, the barn behind, the light and labor of high summer rendered with extraordinary engraving quality. Farm life, pastoral beauty, and the honest work of the harvest — frame-worthy on its own, and exceptional for agricultural history collectors and Victorian pastoral art enthusiasts.\n\n🪖 TWO-THIRDS PAGE — \"BILLETED — SPAIN, 1874\"\nA supplement illustration documenting the Third Carlist War in Spain (1872–76) — the bitter civil war between the Carlist pretender and the constitutional government. \"Billeted\" shows soldiers quartered in a Spanish civilian home — the intimate and disruptive reality of civil war in a family's living space. For Spanish history collectors, Carlist War researchers, and 19th-century European military history enthusiasts.\n\n📚 \"THE TREASURE HUNTERS; SEARCH FOR THE MOUNTAIN MINE\" — CHAPTERS XX AND XXI\nFurther serialized chapters of this adventure fiction by George Manville Fenn — the supplement's literary component, dense and readable.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📋 CONDITION\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nIntake photographs of every page are included in this listing. 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