MOUNTAIN CHARLIE - Charles Stewart Stobie 1845 to 1931 Indian Scout, Artist and early photographer

Things have sure come a long way since exploding cameras, attached is some artwork and info about a long lost relative on my fathers side of the family whom I came across by googling for early American artwork. Also a special thanks to both Ning.com - Slide.com and all the other tools needed to bring round this full circle and be able to show off these long lost masterpieces
( If anyone could inform me or trace any other pieces of this artist I would be grateful for the knowledge of it's whereabouts email mickey@mickeyflynn.com )

“MOUNTAIN CHARLIE” CHARLES STEWART STOBIE – FRONTIERS MAN INDIAN FIGHTER ARTIST AND EARLY PHOTOGRAPHER
http://www.askart.com/askart/s/charles_stewart_stobie/charles_stewart_stobie.aspx

Charles Stewart Stobie was born 1845 in Baltimore, Maryland and he died 1931 in Chicago, Illinois. He studied art at Saint Andrews, Scotland. Stobie is considered an early Denver painter. He was also an Indian scout and buffalo hunter. Among his friends were William Cody, Wild Bill Hickock, and Frederick Remington. Stobie lived with Utes in Colorado and contributed a painting, Crossing the Planes to Colorado in 1865.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,929784-2,00.html
Died. Col. Charles Stewart Stobie, 86, oldtime Indian fighter; in Chicago. As "Mountain Charlie" he campaigned with William Frederick ("Buffalo Bill") Cody and "Wild Bill" Hickok, later was adopted as a White Ute, retired to paint Indians. To his death he wore his hah long, carried a scar across his back, inflicted by Indians as he lay beleaguered in a buffalo wallow.

Mentioned in..
http://www.illinoisart.org/artists_listP_S.html

https://localhistory.kclibrary.org/cdm4/results.php?CISOOP1=exact&CISOFIELD1=CISOSEARCHALL&CISOROOT=all&CISOBOX1=Stobie%2C+Charles+S.

Crossing the Plains to Colorado in 1865 November 1, 1933 Charles Stewart Stobie started from St. Joseph, Missouri, on his trip across the plains. Took the Missouri River up to Nebraska City to start on the trail. Describes the experience in detail.

http://history.denverlibrary.org/images/undigitized/S.html

From the lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill Chapter 28 page 429

Stobie born in Baltimore on March 18th 1845 went west in 1865 by wagon train to Denver teaming up with Californian Joe Milner, they were in three Indian fights between Fort Kearny and Fort Sedgwick, Stobie was the only white man with the Ute war party that fought Arapahoes and Cheyennes, he scouted for Maj Jack Downing against the same tribes and was scout with Jim Baker at the White River Ute Agency under Major D C Oakes. Returning to Chicago, Stobie studied art under G P A Healy. Stobie painted Sitting Bull, Standing Bear, Little Wolf, Frank North and Kit Carson and was also noteable as a photographer.

http://www.savageauart.com/bio-c%20p%20adams.htm
Biography Charles Adams
“More than any other painter he captured the grandeur of the Rockies,
their overpowering strength, their mystical beauty.”

Colorado’s poet laureate Thomas Hornsby Ferril of painter Charles Partridge Adams
Adams had arrived during an amazingly active period in the Denver art community. The Academy of Fine Arts Association of Colorado was founded in 1876. Another group - known as both the Kit Kat Club and the Colorado Art Association, started up in 1880 and Adams was a member, along with well-known local figures like Howard Streight, Charles Stewart Stobie, John Harrison Mills and Harvey Otis Young. In 1882 the Colorado Academy of Design was founded, followed in the 1886 by the Denver Art Club, the Denver Paint and Clay Club in 1889 (Adams was a member), the Le Brun Art Club in 1890, the Denver Art League in 1892, and the Artists’ Club in 1893. (The Artists’ Club is still with us, though transformed: it incorporated in 1917 as the Denver Art Association and in 1923 became the Denver Art Museum.)

http://photoswest.org:8080/cgi-bin/cw_cgi?resultsScreen+20046+1+10+0

http://www.artfact.com/artist/stobie-charles-stewart-xcr6l54x1f


http://www.foothillsartcenter.org/pdf/ColoradoMasterpiecesPressRelease.pdf
List of Exhibition Artists
Late 19th & Early 20th Century Artists

http://www.madras.fife.sch.uk/archive/fpbiographies/stobie.html

Charles S. Stobie Born in Baltimore in 1845, Stobie attended the Maryland Institute in Baltimore and studied drawing and painting for two years at Madras College in St. Andrew, Scotland. His family moved to Chicago in 1862-63, and two years later Stobie journeyed west to St. Louis and secured passage up the Missouri to Nebraska City, where he hired out as a bullwhacker. Stobie quickly became bored with the slow pace of the oxtrain and found employment with a; horse-mule train at a stage station along the route to Fort Kearney. The train skirmished with Indians three times east of Fort Sedgwick and Stobie was credited with killing seven Indians. The fete was noted in the Rocky Mountain News before his arrival in Denver, and "from that time forward," Stobie later said, "I never wanted for employment, friends or money in Colorado." , Stobie ably combined scouting and painting, and in the winter of 1865 became intimately acquainted with and sought advice from the well-known mountaineer James P. Beckwourth, as well as Kit Carson, Mariano Medino, and James Baker. During the spring of 1866 Stobie crossed Berthoud Pass and lived with Nevava's band of Utes in Middle Park While living with the Utes Stobie was a member of a war party that took seven scalps in a skirmish with a band of Cheyenne and Arapaho near Grand Lake. Stobie was adopted into the tribe and known as Paghaghet or Long Hair. It was at this time that Stobie, rugged yet sensitive, began to paint and sketch in ernest, particularly the Middle Park region. In the fall he was back in Denver as a scenic artist and actor, and displayed some large landscape paintings with Middle park subject matter in the offices of the Rocky Mountain News.

See also The Life And Adventures of James P Beckwourth
http://books.google.com/books?id=aMowAAAAMAAJ&printsec=titlepage&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0#PPA16,M1

In 1868 Stobie was again in Indian country as a scout for Major Jacob Downing's expedition against the Cheyenne and Arapaho, and established a studio over the Tambien Saloon at 355 Larimer Street, where he specialized in portraits and landscapes. In 1869 Stobie returned to scouting once again and assisted in the marking the location of the White River Ute agency in northwest Colorado. Stobie was an active buffalo hunter in addition to guiding and interpreting throughout the upper Colorado river region, and when he wasn't afield, he was painting and promoting his work, and associating with other frontier figures like himself. In the fall of 1875, for some unknown reason, he returned to Chicago.

From 1875 until his death in 1931 Stobie painted mainly at his Chicago studio, moving back to Denver intermittently, once in 1900, where he wielded his brush at 1605 Larimer until 1902, as well as irregularly visiting the southwestern part of the state. Among Colorado contemporaries Stobie was an artist of recognized ability. A writer for the Denver Post observed at the turn of the century the Stobie was a "rare painter of western life and scenery with all the charm and romantic passion that only those who love it, know how to throw into pictures of the West." Among the Ute tribe he was always a great favorite, and in general his attention to detail in the case of Indian dress and village life remains a valuable record Coloradoans are particularly indebted to Stobie for his vivid and colorful paintings of the state and its inhabitants.

http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:yLluLq5vUfUJ:www.foothillsartcenter.org/pdf/TimelinewithArtistBios.pdf+charles+stewart+stobie&cd=28&hl=en&ct=clnk
1865 Charles Stewart Stobie (1845-1931) arrives in Colorado wanting to
following in the footsteps of his idol, George Caitlin. Stobie, who was born in
Baltimore, Maryland, studied art in St. Andrews, Scotland and later worked in an
architect’s office before heading west as a member of a wagon train. On the
way, hostile Indians attack the train three times, and Stobie is credited with killing
seven. Word spreads and upon his arrival the Rocky Mountain News reports the
story. According to Stobie, “From that time forward, I never wanted for
employment, friends, or money in Colorado.”
Mountain Charlie, as he is called, is one of the most colorful characters of the
day and is perhaps better known as an Indian fighter, scout and buffalo hunter,
but recognized locally as one of the best painters of the West. He counts among
his friends such western luminaries as Buffalo Bill Cody, Kit Carson, Wild Bill Hickok,
Jim Baker, and artist Fredrick Remington. Stobie often takes Remington on
sketching trips to Ute Indian encampments. He lives mostly in Denver and Grand
Lake or among the Utes, of whom he said, “Preferring the Indians companions, I
gradually got into their ways, and on hunting trips became more and more
enamored of this kind of life.”
1867 Lucien B. Smith invents barbed wire thus ending the open range.
End of Story.
( for more info see - Following the trail of Mountain Charlie - info and pics of his buddies and associates )