Sioux Camp Scene Assiniboine Hunting Buffalo by Paul Kane (1851-1856) Emigrants Crossing the Plains, Albert Bierstadt (1867) Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers Through the Cumberland Gap by George Caleb Bingham (1851-52) Miners in the Sierras by Frederick August Wenderoth (1851-52) Across the Continent: Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way, by Frances F. Palmer (1868) American Progress, John Gast (1872) The Cherokee tribe was driven out of their ancestral lands in Georgia in the 1830s James W. Buel. From Heroes of the Plains, or, Lives and Wonderful Adventures of Wild Bill, Buffalo Bill ... and Other Celebrated Indian Fighters ... Including a True and Thrilling History of Gen. Custer's Famous "Last Fight", 1881. Battle of Little Bighorn June 25 , 1876 th Custer’s Last Stand Hill Spotted Elk Lying Dead after the Wounded Knee Massacre, December 29th, 1890