George Catlin and the old frontier.

McCracken, Harold 1894-1983 (Author).

Summary: George Catlin was the first artist of stature to travel our Western Plains for the purpose of making a documentary record of the Indian tribes. Between 1830 and 1836 the visited and became well acquainted with almost all the important tribes, scattered over the vast and still little-known area from the Upper Missouri and the headwaters of the Mississippi to the Mexican Territory in the far Southwest. He made the most comprehensive pictorial record we have of these people in their natural state? portraits of the most notable of their chieftains, warriors, medicine-men and women, as well as pictures of their religious and other tribal ceremonies and dances, pursuits of warfare and hunting, games, amusement, and various other activities.

Record details

ISBN: 0517084279
ISBN: 9780517084274
Physical Description: print
216 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 32 cm
Publisher: New York, Dial Press, ©1959.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-214).

Formatted Contents Note:

Documentarian of a race -- Destiny beyond the Mississippi -- On the western frontier -- Up the wild Missouri -- In the land of the Sioux -- When red and white men meet -- Life in a primitive state -- The magnificent male -- The mysterious Mandans -- A guest among friends -- Mandan torture ceremony -- A many-sided enchantment -- White man's civilization -- Return to the primitive -- On the southern plains -- Land of the wild Comanches -- A badge of courage -- Journey in a birch-bark canoe -- A garden of the red gods -- A lonely crusade -- A reluctant exile -- End of a long trail.