George Catlin and the Old Frontier. Harold Mccracken

George Catlin and the Old Frontier.

Author	Harold McCracken
Publisher	New York: Bonanza Books, [1959]
Edition
Weight	1050 gram
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Keywords	George Catlin, Indians, Native Americans, American Indians, Sioux, Comanches, Cheyenne, Blackfoot, Choctaw
Booknumber	14967
Category's	History & Archaeology (North America) Art (North America) Art (Pre-Columbian) History & Archaeology (Biography)
4-to, Pp. 216. Half-cloth with pictorial dust-jacket. Illustrated. Index. Catlin (1796 - 1872) was a lawyer turned portrait painter who found his destiny beyond the Mississippi. Because of his association with William Clark (of the Lewis and Clark expedition) Catlin's foodsteps were led to the West. In the years immediately preceding the first westward migration, he wandered, virtually alone, and painted among some forty-eight tribes of Indians. He lived with them and witnessed and recorded in meticulous detail their daily lives and their most secret ceremonies. This work gives not only a biography of the man, but there are also extensive quotes from Catlin's little-known writings about he wilderness life of the 1830's and the secret rites of the Indians. With a coloured portrait of Catlin as frontispiece, 36 (most full-page) coloured illustrations of his paintings and over 130 b/w illustrations of other pictures by Catlin. With references, notes, bibliography and index. Book and dust-jacketr fine. A splendid work about an extraordinary man.
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George Catlin and the Old Frontier.