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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Indians of North America.
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Indians of North America -- West (U.S.)
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Indians of North America
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West United States
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Electronic book
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9781582182742 |
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1582182744 |
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