Bakeitzogie (The Yellow Coyote), called "Dutchy"
Bakeitzogie (The Yellow Coyote), called "Dutchy", a scout for
US Army
Captain Emmet Crawford. He is wearing moccosins and has a "prairie" belt
and
a Mills belt loaded with .45 caliber carbine ammunition. From Dusan
Farrinton's assessment of the belt, he believes it to be a
modified Mills belt with
leather closing billet and buckle affixed to the plain ends beyond the
cartridge loops. On the official "prairie belt" the buckle is a full
frame,
almost square buckle, attached by its left edge to the left end of the
belt.
The buckle in the picture is only a "half frame" and attached to the right
side of the belt. Two of the rivets are used to attach the added
leather closing billet of the belt to the outside of the woven fabric of
the
belt on the left side. Dusan mentioned that it is common to find a
variety of
trooper modified Mills belts. The Mills belt (lower one) has
the cast US buckle. Dutchy also has a Trapdoor Springfield Carbine with
M79 rear sights. The carbine seems to have the
correct front sight so I would expect the gun to be a true carbine.
Above the photo is written, "Scene of
the
Oatman Massacre.". Now it is pretty clear the title
is not for this photo,
but for the info partially shown on the right side of the image. Below
the
photo is hand written, "Dutchy - The friendly Apache Scout who killed the
murderer of Captain Emmet Crawford, 3rd US Cav., USA." Using the Army War
College web site, I found that during the CW, Emmet Crawford was a
1st Lt.
Co. A 13th Regt. US Colored Troops, Hvy Arty. Using the Arlington
National Cemetery site supplied by Tom Trevor, the details of
Crawford's
hunt for Geronimo and his untimely death in January 1886, were obtained.
A photo of Captain Crawford was located by Tom Trevor and Don Harpold
and a Frederick Remington drawing of Crawford's death was
located in the U.S. Army Military History Institute. Images of Capt. Crawford
The "Dutchy" photo was sent to me by Roy Marcot, who located the image on
the
National Archives web site. According to the NA site, the image is in
"Photographs of American Indians and Other Subjects 1840s-...." The
culture
mentioned is Apache Chiriccahua. Co-Creator - James E. Taylor. Cite as
SPC BAE 4605 01600511, Smithsonian Inst. Nat. Anthropologial Archives.
