Robert McGee, the man who was scalped as a child by Native American warriors, 1864

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Robert McGee is one of the few people in American frontier history to survive having his flesh ripped from his skull. In 1890, photographer E.E. Henry took this rare photograph of Robert McGee displaying his scalping scars. This is the story of how Robert McGee was scalped in the summer of 1864 by Sioux Indian […]