246 x 150 mm. Portrait on lettered mount.

Distinctive image of Custer in buckskins with a hunting rifle, wearing his trademark red kerchief. Taken on or around January 24, 1874 by St. Louis photographer James A. Scholte on the occasion of a visit by Russian Grand Duke Alexis, who requested to go on a buffalo hunt with Custer.  The group was guided by William "Buffalo Bill" Cody on an expedition led by General William Tecumseh Sherman.  This image originally appeared as a tipped-in addition to the 19th-century trade publication, the Philadelphia Photographer. A scarce original image, widely copied and issued in cabinet format after the Battle of Little Bighorn. Custer in Photographs K-113.