Like many early visitors to the Great Plains, artist George Catlin was amazed when he witnessed Native Americans hunting bison on horseback, using bows and arrows as weapons.

Letters from Catlin to Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1840-1860, and 2 letters from Phillipps to Catlin; writings by Catlin; material on Catlin's Indian Gallery, including clippings, catalogs, handbills, ...

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Introduction: Three artists meet the west -- Charles Bird King: Portraits for the record -- George Catlin: Rescuing the Indians from oblivion -- Karl Bodmer: "Over ...

“A native person is challenged, I think, not to feel on some level a profound resentment toward Catlin,” says W. Richard West, director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian and ...