Thrust into a war within America’s Civil War, seven-year-old Ambrose Asher carried with him a Cheyenne treasure. The oldest-known ledger book of Plains Indian drawings, it bid in for an astonishing $150,000 at Sotheby’s New York on May 22.
The Cheyennes had killed Asher’s grandfather and uncle, and other members of the Eubank wagon train, on August 7, 1864. They had been on the warpath since May, when U.S. Army troops cold-bloodedly murdered Chief Lean Bear, who greeted them while wea
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