Scope and Contents note From the Series: Dan Battise (Alabama-Coushatta) was born in 1917 in the "piney-woods" country between Indian Village and Livingston, Texas. As a child he became interested in photography when he saw a man with a box camera. He cut grass for people to earn enough to purchase his first Kodak camera, and he kept up his photography hobby ever since that time. A veteran of World War II, Battise served as a member of the Devils Brigade, a joint American-Canadian commando unit that trained in mountaineering,...