The Red Man's Bones: George Catlin, Artist and Showman

Author: Benita Eisler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 George Catlin has been called the "first artist of the West," as none before him lived among and painted the Native American tribes of the Northern Plains. After a false start as a painter of miniatures, Catlin found his calling: to fix the image of a "vanishing race" before their "extermination"-his word-by a government greedy for their lands. In the first six years of the 1830s, he created over six hundred...Read more