Striking 1882 cabinet photograph by Bailey, Dix & Mead depicting "Steps," a Nez Perce man who survived extraordinary hardship after being separated from his band during General Nelson A. Miles’s campaign in the Nebraska Badlands in 1878. The portrait shows him kneeling with a solemn expression, wearing a heavy coat and resting his remaining hand on a studio prop chair. The amputation of both feet above the ankles and the loss of his right hand are evident, a result of frostbite endured during a blizzard over two decades earlier.

The printed narrative on the reverse provides rare context, explaining his subsequent journey and alliance with Sitting Bull's Uncapapa Lakota band in Canada. Part of a larger ethnographic series produced by the photographers while based at Fort Randall in Dakota Territory, this card is identified as No. 3 in the set and was copyrighted in 1882. The image is a sobering and historically significant visual document reflecting the toll of forced displacement and survival during the Indian Wars.