George Catlin
George Catlin
George Catlinwas an American painter, author, and traveler who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the Old West. Travelling to the American West five times during the 1830s, Catlin was the first white man to depict Plains Indians in their native territory...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArtist
CountryUnited States of America
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No tragedian ever trod the stage, nor gladiator ever entered the Roman Forum, with more grace and manly dignity, than did Four Bears as he arrived for his sitting.
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I have visited forty-eight different tribes, the greater part of which I found speaking different languages, and containing in all 400,000 souls.
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Thank God, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
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A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure; the greater part of the men being six feet high,
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I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers... clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
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The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance: and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
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The several tribes of Indians inhabiting the regions of the Upper Missouri. . . are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the Continent.