PCT4263832: Sioux chiefs. Very often, two or three men formed a war troop and left for weeks or months. Sometimes they'd come back with scalps, horses or women. Then, whatever its size, the war troop knew defeat and there was no survivor to tell the worried women and children the story of the disaster. Photo taken from volume 3 of Edward S. Curtis's encyclopedia (1868-1952) on North American Indians, with a foreword by Theodore Roosevelt. Between 1907 and 1930, 20 volumes were published., Curtis, Edward Sheriff (1868-1952) / Bridgeman Images