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William Henry Illingworth was born in Leeds, England, on 20 September 1844. He immigrated with his parents to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania while still a young child. In 1850, his family relocated to St. Paul, Minnesota, where his father operated a jewelry business. Illingworth helped in the business until he was about 20 years old, when he moved to Chicago to study wet plate photography.
After he returned to Minnesota, he worked on an expedition to Montana, later on, George Armstrong Custer chose him to be the photographer for his Black Hills expedition.
Illingworth's work provided later generations insight into key events of his time.
A blow-up of the Custer Expedition wagon train descending the Castle Creek valley on July 26, 1874 (photograph by William Henry Illingworth, Devereux Library Archives, Illingworth-809). Custer's expedition into the Black Hills consisted of 1,000 soldiers from his 7th Cavalry, 110 wagons, 70 Indian scouts, four reporters, and two gold miners.

Wow! That's one big caravan!

Would be fun to go back in time for a few days

Very cool, that photo is in a few places around town. CLOSE To HOME.

How slow did that mess ebb along?

Osky

I've Read 10 to 15 miles per day average

Nice picture

He must have done some mountain climbing to get that picture.

Drone.

Cool

Hard times..for allot on that wagon train..

You'd have got scalped!

No, this was his intrusion into the Black hills in 1874

His last stand was in 1876

thanks for posting,

Neat, thanks for sharing

As always, 330, good struff!

Jack

Yup,if you don't land at Custers last stand!

Custer was an idiot.

Sure Was...

I would go back in time on the Native Side

Fly in with crates of Sighted in Modern rifles and Ammo.

Until after June 25, 1876

Id Fly out after 3 days to write a book

That’s a bold statement, I’ll leave it at that.