Lieutenant Reade, 3rd Infantry, and frontiersman John Austin view the body of Ralph Morrison who was scalped by Indians near Fort Dodge, Kansas, 1868. Between 1784 (first congressional treaty with the Indians ) and 1871, 370 treaties were signed with the Indians in a hopeless effort to ensure the white man’s getting what he wanted without retribution from the red.” The photography was made 1 hour after the killing.”