Handwritten on verso: "Taken at Fort Dodge, Kansas, 1869. Little Raven, left, is holding his daughter. Col. William Bent is at right of Little Raven. Other two Indians are sons of Little Raven, the one at the right is his oldest, who took part in the "Battle of the Saline" at Salina, Kansas. Information from back of picture in the Stanley Vestal Collection, University of Oklahoma Library, except information about oldest son, which came from Virginia Trenholm Wheatland, Wyoming, 1965." ; In a different handwritting another note reads, "According to Wilbur Sturtevant Nye, Plains Indian Raders (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1868), p. 210, the Indians on the right are Little Bear and Shield (far right), sons or nephwes of Little Raven"