North American Indians

Catlin, George 1796-1872 (Author). Matthiessen, Peter. (Added Author).

Summary: Brings the North American Indians to life through Catlin's classic journals and over fifty reproductions of his paintings.

Record details

ISBN: 0140170146
ISBN: 9780140170146
Physical Description: print
xxxiii, 522 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 20 cm
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 1989.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"North American Indians (more properly, Letters and notes on the manners, customs and conditions of the North American Indians written during eight years' travel (1832-1839) amongst the wildest tribes of Indians of North America) is the second of three classic accounts of the Indians and landscapes and wild creatures of the American West written in the first half of the nineteenth century"--Page ix.

"First published in simultaneous hardcover and paperback editions by Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc., 1989"--Title page verso.

Penguin Nature Library general editor: Edward Hoagland.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages xx-xxi) and index.