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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. Two volumes

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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. Two volumes

by Catlin, George

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Edinburgh: John Grant, 1903. Hardcover. Near fine condition. With four hundred black and white illustrations, carefully engraved from the author's original paintings. Bound in publisher's original green cloth with front covers and spines titled and decorated in gilt. Minimal edgewear, otherwise a clean and bright set in the same format as the original first edition of 1841.

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From 1831 to 1837, George Catlin traveled extensively among the native peoples of North America—from the Muskogee and Miccosukee Creeks of the Southeast to the Lakota, Mandan, and Pawnee of the West, and from the Winnebagos and Menominees of the North to the Comanches of eastern Texas. Studying their habits, customs, and modes of life, he made copious notes and numerous sketches of ceremonies, buffalo hunts, symbols, and totems. Catlin’s unprecedented fieldwork culminated in more than five hundred oil paintings and his now-legendary journals, which, as Peter Matthiessen writes in his introduction, “taken together... constitute the first, last, and only ‘complete’ record of the Plains Indians ever made at the height of their splendid culture, so soon destroyed by traders’ liquor and disease, rapine and bayonets.” A one-volume edition of Catlin's journals Illustrated with more than fifty reproductions of Catlin's incomparable paintings

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Bookseller
James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
9016556
Title
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. Two volumes
Author
Catlin, George
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Near fine condition
Quantity Available
1
Publisher
John Grant
Place of Publication
Edinburgh
Date Published
1903
Keywords
Western Americana, Native American History
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