Robert McGee was an American frontier worker and former soldier whose name became widely known because of the extraordinary injuries he survived during the Indian Wars. This studio portrait was taken after 1864, likely in the late 1860s to early 1870s, and shows McGee in profile to document the lasting effects of his ordeal. In 1864, McGee was captured during a conflict on the Great Plains and was scalped by a Sioux chief known as Little Turtle. Remarkably, he survived the attack and later lived