1877 Dead Mule Trail Idaho, Pike's Peak, Creedmoor Rifle Match — Sep 29

1877 Dead Mule Trail Idaho, Pike's Peak, Creedmoor Rifle Match — Sep 29

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1877 Dead Mule Trail Idaho, Pike's Peak, Creedmoor Rifle Match — Sep 29
  • 1877 Dead Mule Trail Idaho, Pike's Peak, Creedmoor Rifle Match — Sep 29
  • 1877 Dead Mule Trail Idaho, Pike's Peak, Creedmoor Rifle Match — Sep 29
  • 1877 Dead Mule Trail Idaho, Pike's Peak, Creedmoor Rifle Match — Sep 29
  • 1877 Dead Mule Trail Idaho, Pike's Peak, Creedmoor Rifle Match — Sep 29
  • 1877 Dead Mule Trail Idaho, Pike's Peak, Creedmoor Rifle Match — Sep 29
  • 1877 Dead Mule Trail Idaho, Pike's Peak, Creedmoor Rifle Match — Sep 29
  • 1877 Dead Mule Trail Idaho, Pike's Peak, Creedmoor Rifle Match — Sep 29
  • 1877 Dead Mule Trail Idaho, Pike's Peak, Creedmoor Rifle Match — Sep 29
  • 1877 Dead Mule Trail Idaho, Pike's Peak, Creedmoor Rifle Match — Sep 29
  • 1877 Dead Mule Trail Idaho, Pike's Peak, Creedmoor Rifle Match — Sep 29
  • 1877 Dead Mule Trail Idaho, Pike's Peak, Creedmoor Rifle Match — Sep 29
  • 1877 Dead Mule Trail Idaho, Pike's Peak, Creedmoor Rifle Match — Sep 29
  • 1877 Dead Mule Trail Idaho, Pike's Peak, Creedmoor Rifle Match — Sep 29
  • 1877 Dead Mule Trail Idaho, Pike's Peak, Creedmoor Rifle Match — Sep 29
  • 1877 Dead Mule Trail Idaho, Pike's Peak, Creedmoor Rifle Match — Sep 29
  • 1877 Dead Mule Trail Idaho, Pike's Peak, Creedmoor Rifle Match — Sep 29
  • 1877 Dead Mule Trail Idaho, Pike's Peak, Creedmoor Rifle Match — Sep 29
  • 1877 Dead Mule Trail Idaho, Pike's Peak, Creedmoor Rifle Match — Sep 29
  • 1877 Dead Mule Trail Idaho, Pike's Peak, Creedmoor Rifle Match — Sep 29
  • 1877 Dead Mule Trail Idaho, Pike's Peak, Creedmoor Rifle Match — Sep 29
1877 Dead Mule Trail Idaho, Pike's Peak, Creedmoor Rifle Match — Sep 29

1877 Dead Mule Trail Idaho, Pike's Peak, Creedmoor Rifle Match — Sep 29

$41.11
🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · September 29, 1877 Complete Issue + Supplement Pages · New York ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A richly varied and visually dramatic issue — a dramatic Idaho mountain trail front page, the Creedmoor International Rifle Match, Pike's Peak at sunset, yachting in a heavy sea, and a supplement packed with Russo-Turkish War content: the death of a colonel at Plevna, a Russian dragoon charge, the Kars defense, and massacres at Yeni Zara. Strong content for collectors of Western Americana, American sporting history, and Russo-Turkish War illustration. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏔️ THE FRONT PAGE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏔️ FULL FRONT PAGE — "DEAD MULE TRAIL, IDAHO" A dramatic full front-page illustration of the Dead Mule Trail in Idaho — one of the rugged mountain pack trails of the Idaho mining frontier, named for the animals that perished on its treacherous slopes. Published during the Nez Perce War, with Chief Joseph's band still fighting their way through Idaho and Montana, this image of Idaho's forbidding mountain terrain carries particular resonance. A vivid and significant piece of Idaho frontier and Western Americana history. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎯 INSIDE THE ISSUE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎯 DOUBLE-PAGE CENTERFOLD — "CREEDMOOR — THE INTERNATIONAL RIFLE MATCH" A double-page centerfold of the International Rifle Match at Creedmoor — the famous shooting range on Long Island where American marksmen met their international rivals in what became one of the most celebrated sporting events of the Gilded Age. The Creedmoor matches of the 1870s helped professionalize competitive marksmanship and were followed with intense national interest. A significant piece of American sporting history. 🏔️ FULL PAGE — "PIKE'S PEAK AT SUNSET — THE MOUNTAIN SHADOW ON THE EASTERN SKY" A full-page illustration of Pike's Peak at sunset — the mountain shadow cast across the eastern Colorado sky in a dramatic and atmospheric landscape view. A beautiful and very frameable piece of Rocky Mountain and Colorado scenery. 👤 QUARTER-PAGE PORTRAIT — "MEHEMET ALI, COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE TURKISH ARMY IN BULGARIA" A portrait of Mehmed Ali Pasha — the German-born Ottoman field commander (Karl Detroit) who commanded the Ottoman army in Bulgaria. A significant piece of Russo-Turkish War portraiture. 💥 FULL PAGE — "THE BENNETT MEDALISTS" A full-page illustration of the Bennett Medalists — recipients of the James Gordon Bennett trophy, likely connected to the Creedmoor rifle competition. A piece of American sporting history. 🎣 HALF PAGE — "CROKER FISHING IN THE DELAWARE" A half-page illustration of fishing on the Delaware River — a vivid piece of American leisure and angling history. ⛵ HALF PAGE — "YACHTING — A HEAVY SEA" A half-page illustration of yachting in heavy weather — a dramatic maritime sporting scene. 💥 HALF PAGE — "RUSSIAN INFANTRY CHARGING INTO A FOREST UNDER TURKISH FIRE" A half-page illustration of Russian infantry charging into a forested position under Ottoman fire — a vivid piece of Russo-Turkish War woodland combat illustration. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚔️ THE SUPPLEMENT — RUSSO-TURKISH WAR ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💥 TWO-THIRDS PAGE — "AN INCIDENT OF THE BATTLE OF PLEVNA — DEATH OF COLONEL ROSENBAUM OF THE ARCHANGEL REGIMENT" A vivid and dramatic supplement illustration of Russian infantry in violent close combat at Plevna — Colonel Rosenbaum of the Archangel Regiment falling in the foreground as soldiers fight hand to hand across a smoke-covered hillside. A specific, named incident of the war with a named casualty — a rare and emotionally resonant piece of Russo-Turkish War battlefield documentation. 🐎 HALF PAGE — "CHARGE OF RUSSIAN DRAGOONS THROUGH CIRCASSIAN HORSE AT DZURANLI" A dramatic illustration of Russian dragoons crashing through Circassian cavalry at Dzuranli — a swirling melee of horses and riders in violent collision, one of the most energetic cavalry battle scenes in the supplement run. A vivid and very frameable piece of Russo-Turkish War cavalry illustration. 🏰 HALF PAGE — "THE DEFENSE OF KARS — THE LAST SHOT FIRED" A half-page supplement illustration of the last shot fired in the defense of Kars — the great Armenian highland fortress that fell to Russian forces on November 18, 1877. This "last shot" illustration captures the final desperate moment of Ottoman resistance at one of the war's key strategic points. A significant piece of Russo-Turkish War Caucasus history. ⚔️ TWO-THIRDS PAGE — "MASSACRES AT YENI ZARA — CIRCASSIANS ATTACKING THE VILLAGE" A harrowing supplement illustration of Circassian irregular fighters attacking the village of Yeni Zara — figures fleeing and fighting, buildings visible, chaos spreading across the scene. The Circassians, exiled Muslim warriors from the Caucasus settled in Ottoman Bulgaria, were responsible for some of the worst atrocities against Bulgarian Christian civilians during the war. A significant humanitarian document of the war's violence against civilians. 🖼️ LARGE ILLUSTRATION — SUPPLEMENT SCENE A large supplement illustration with a dramatic landscape and figures. Please review all photographs for the full caption and details of this scene. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📋 CONDITION ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ I photograph every page of every issue so you can inspect the condition closely before purchasing. Please review all images carefully and don't hesitate to ask any questions — I'm happy to provide additional detail or close-up shots of any page, illustration, or area of concern before you buy. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 DETAILS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Publication ········ Harper's Weekly Date ··············· September 29, 1877 City ··············· New York Item Number ········ 174178 Pages ·············· Complete Issue + Supplement Format ············· Illustrated folio newspaper ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📦 SHIPPING & PRESERVATION ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Housed in an acid-free archival folder with Mylar overlay to protect the 148-year-old newsprint • Flat-shipped with heavy-duty reinforcement to ensure safe arrival of the centerfold and supplement • Fully tracked for your peace of mind ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔍 SEO TAGS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Dead Mule Trail Idaho, Idaho frontier trail, Idaho mountain trail, Western Americana Idaho, Idaho mining frontier, Nez Perce War Idaho terrain, Creedmoor rifle match, International Rifle Match, Creedmoor Long Island shooting, American marksmanship Victorian, Bennett Medal rifle, Gilded Age sport shooting, Pike's Peak sunset Colorado, Colorado Rockies landscape, Pike's Peak mountain shadow, Pikes Peak Victorian print, Russian infantry forest Turkish fire, Plevna Colonel Rosenbaum, Archangel Regiment Plevna, Battle Plevna death incident, Russo-Turkish War Plevna, Russian dragoons Circassian, Dzuranli cavalry charge, Russian dragoon battle, Circassian horse cavalry, Defense of Kars last shot, Kars fortress Ottoman, Russo-Turkish War Kars, Yeni Zara massacres, Circassian attacks Bulgarian, Ottoman atrocities Bulgaria, Mehemet Ali Ottoman commander, Bulgarian commander Russo-Turkish, Croker fishing Delaware, Delaware River fishing, yachting heavy sea Victorian, Harper's Weekly 1877, antique newspaper 1877, Victorian illustrated newspaper, Gilded Age newspaper, antique illustration engraving, Victorian wall art, framing quality print, Western Americana collector, Idaho history, history lover gift, rare newspaper collectible, museum quality ephemera, Gilded Age ephemera

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