North American Indians. Volume 2 / George Catlin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Catlin, George, 1796-1872.

Series:

North American Indians ; v.2.

North American Indians ; v.2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--West (U.S.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (418 p.)

Place of Publication:

Scituate, MA : Digital Scanning, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The North American Indians by George Catlin being letters and notes on their manners customs and conditions. Volume two of two, both Volumes contain 320 illustrations from the John Grant 1926 edition. George Catlin was an American painter and writer. In 1823 he gave up his law practice to pursue his self-taught art, painting portraits in Philadelphia, Washington, D. C. and Albany, New York. After meeting a tribal delegation of Native Americans from the Far West he became eager to preserve the vanishing tribes and customs of the Native Americans through his art. Catlin traveled throughout the American West from 1832 to 1840. He sketched and painted hundreds of portraits, village scenes, religious rituals and games and wrote of his encounters with these fascinating people as he worked. The North American Indians features fifty-eight letters and 320 illustrations from the author's original portraits, all in a two-volume set. Volume 1 ISBN 978-1582182735 Volume 2 ISBN 978-1582182742.

Contents:

NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS VOLUME II; CONTENTS; LETTER -NO.32; Cantonment Leavenworth.; Shiennes, portraits of.; Floyd's Grave.; Black Bird's Grave.; Beautiful grassy bluffs.; Mandan remains.; Belle Vue.; Square hills.; Mouth of Platte.; Buffaloes crossing.; LETTER -NO.33; Grouse shooting before the burning prairies.; Prairie bluffs burning.; Prairie meadows burning.; LETTER -NO.34; Ioways.; Konzas.; Mode of shaving the head.; Pawnees.; Small-pox amongst Pawnees.; Major Dougherty's opinion of the Fur Trade.; Grand Pawnees.; Ottoes.; Omahas.; LETTER -NO.35; St Louis.

Loss of Indian curiosities,etc.Governor Clarke.; LETTER -No.36; Pensacola; Florida.; Perdido.; Pine woods of Florida.; Santa Rosa Island.; Prophecy.; Start for Camanchee country.; LETTER -NO.37; Transit up the Arkansas River.; Fort Gibson,; 1st regiment United States Dragoons reviewed.; Equipping and starting of Dragoons for the Camanchee country.; LETTER -NO.38; Fort Gibson.; Osages.; Portraits of Osages.; Former and present condition of.; Start for Camanchees and Pawnee Picts.; LETTER -NO.39; Mouth of the False Washita and Red River.; Beautiful prairie country.; Arkansas grapes.; Plums.

Wild Roses, currants, gooseberries, prickly pears,etc.Buffalo chase.; Murder of Judge Martin and family.; LETTER -NO.40; Sickness at the Mouth of False Washita - one half of the regiment start for the Camanchees, under comman of Colonel Dodge.; Sickness of General Leavenworth,and cause of.; Another buffalo hunt.; LETTER -NO.41; Great Camanchee village,Texas.; A stampedo.; Meeting a Camanchee war party,and mode of approaching them.; They turn about and escort the Dragoons to their village.; Immense herds of buffaloes.; Buffaloes breaking through the ranks of the Dragoon regiment.

Wild horses -sagacity of-wild horses at play.Joe Chadwick and I ""creasing" a wild horse.; Taking the wild horse with lasso,and "breaking down."; Chain of the Rocky Mountain.; Approach to the Camanchee village.; Immense number of Camanchee horses -prices of.; Capt. Duncan's purchase.; LETTER -NO.42; Description of the Camanchee village, and view of.; Painting a family group.; Camanchees moving.; Wonderful feats of riding.; Portraits of Camanchee chiefs.; Estimates of the Camanchees.; Pawnee Picts, Kioways,and Wicos.; LETTER -NO.43; The regiment advance towards the Pawnee village.

Description and view of the Pawnee village.Council in the Pawnee village.; Recovery of the son of Judge Martin, and the presentation of the three Pawnee and Kioway women to their own people.; Return of the regiment to the Camanchee village.; Pawnee Picts, portraits of.; Kioways, Wicos, portraits of.; LETTER -NO.44; Camp Canadian.; Immense herds of buffaloes.; Great slaughter of them.; Extraordinary sickness of the command.; Suffering from impure water-sickness of the men.; Horned frogs.; Curious adventure in catching them.; Death of General Leavenworth and Lieutenant M'Clure.; LETTER -NO.45

Return to Fort Gibson.

Notes:

Originally published: North American Indians: being letters and notes on their manners, customs, and conditions, written during eight years' travel amongst the wildest tribes of Indians in North America, 1832-1839. Edinburgh: J.

ISBN:

1-58218-272-8

OCLC:

922990959