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Hi Everyone,
Here is a new bust is now available at www.unitedempireminiatures.com on page 8 of our site
Thanks for looking,
Mike
"Dutch"
Cherokee Chief Tahchee 1837
1/10 scale resin bust
Sculpted by: Carl Reid
Box art painted by: Mike Cramer
Item:CR14
Parts: bust, feather, knife, base
Tahchee is the Cherokee word for Dutch. How he acquired this name we are not informed, except that he obtained it in his infancy from his own people. In process of time, as its import became known, it was translated into the word Dutch, by which he is most usually called. He was born about the year 1790, at Turkey Town, on the Coosa River, in a district of country then composed of the wild lands of the United States, but now included in the State of Alabama.
Throughout his life, Cherokee Chief Tahchee, also known as Captain William Dutch, was known as a fearless warrior. Tahchee was one of the original groups of Cherokees to move west of the Mississippi river. He became a major political force in the "old settler party". He fought many fights with the Osage Indians who leaved near the Cherokees. Eventually, he would become a scout for the U.S. Army, where he reached the rank of Captain. Tahchee died on March 12, 1848, in Indian Territory.
Catlin who met Dutch in 1834 called him "a guide and hunter for the regiment of dragoons.... The history of this man's life has been very curious and surprising; and I sincerely hope that someone, with more leisure and more talent than myself, will take it up, and do it justice. I promise that the life of this man furnishes the best materials for a popular tale, that are now to be procured on the Western frontier." The bust is based on the painting by Charles Bird King painted in Washington City during February and March of 1837.
Here is a new bust is now available at www.unitedempireminiatures.com on page 8 of our site
Thanks for looking,
Mike
"Dutch"
Cherokee Chief Tahchee 1837
1/10 scale resin bust
Sculpted by: Carl Reid
Box art painted by: Mike Cramer
Item:CR14
Parts: bust, feather, knife, base
Tahchee is the Cherokee word for Dutch. How he acquired this name we are not informed, except that he obtained it in his infancy from his own people. In process of time, as its import became known, it was translated into the word Dutch, by which he is most usually called. He was born about the year 1790, at Turkey Town, on the Coosa River, in a district of country then composed of the wild lands of the United States, but now included in the State of Alabama.
Throughout his life, Cherokee Chief Tahchee, also known as Captain William Dutch, was known as a fearless warrior. Tahchee was one of the original groups of Cherokees to move west of the Mississippi river. He became a major political force in the "old settler party". He fought many fights with the Osage Indians who leaved near the Cherokees. Eventually, he would become a scout for the U.S. Army, where he reached the rank of Captain. Tahchee died on March 12, 1848, in Indian Territory.
Catlin who met Dutch in 1834 called him "a guide and hunter for the regiment of dragoons.... The history of this man's life has been very curious and surprising; and I sincerely hope that someone, with more leisure and more talent than myself, will take it up, and do it justice. I promise that the life of this man furnishes the best materials for a popular tale, that are now to be procured on the Western frontier." The bust is based on the painting by Charles Bird King painted in Washington City during February and March of 1837.
