The Author painting a Chief at the base of the Rocky Mountains.
ILLUSTRATIONS
OF THE
MANNERS, CUSTOMS, & CONDITION
OF THE
NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS.
With Letters and Notes,
Written during Eight Years of Travel and Adventure among the
Wildest and most Remarkable Tribes now Existing.
Wildest and most Remarkable Tribes now Existing.
By GEORGE CATLIN.
WITH
THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY COLOURED ENGRAVINGS
FROM THE AUTHOR’S ORIGINAL PAINTINGS.
THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY COLOURED ENGRAVINGS
FROM THE AUTHOR’S ORIGINAL PAINTINGS.
IN TWO VOLUMES.—VOL. I.
London:
CHATTO & WINDUS, PICCADILLY.
1876.
CHATTO & WINDUS, PICCADILLY.
1876.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY J. OGDEN AND CO.,
172, ST. JOHN STREET, E.C.
PRINTED BY J. OGDEN AND CO.,
172, ST. JOHN STREET, E.C.
iiiCONTENTS
CONTENTS
OF
THE FIRST VOLUME.
Frontispiece:—The Author painting a Chief in an Indian Village.
Map of Indian Localities embraced within the Author’s Travels.
Wyöming, birth-place of the Author, p. 2.—His former Profession—First cause of his Travels to the Indian Country—Delegation of Indians in Philadelphia—First start to the Far West, in 1832, p. 3.—Design of forming a National Gallery—Numbers of Tribes visited, and number of Paintings and other things collected, p. 4.—Probable extinction of the Indians, p. 5.—Former and present numbers of—The proper mode of approaching them, and estimating their character, p. 5–10.
Certificates of Government Officers, Indian Agents and others, as to the fidelity of the Portraits and other Paintings, p. 11–13.