Book Description
Over 175 years ago George Catlin, American painter, writer and explorer, realized that the white settlers would eventually destroy the native cultures of North America. Eager to preserve the vanishing tribes and customs of the Native Americans through his art, his encounters with these fascinating people resulted in the two-volume book, The North American Indians featuring fifty-eight letters and 400 engraved illustrations from the author's original portraits.

From the Publisher
A digital reproduction of the first edition in two volumes, unabridged, originally published in 1903. CD-ROM based reference material created from a 1903 two-volume set. Fully printable and text searchable. Windows and Macintosh compatible. System Requirements: Pentium processor-based personal computer Windows 95 or Windows NT Windows 3.1 16 MB of RAM available to Acrobat Reader 10 MB of available hard-disk space Macintosh and Power Macintosh Minimum Macintosh with a 68020 or greater processor, or Power Macintosh 12 MB of available hard-disk space Adobe Acrobat Reader3.5 MB of RAM (5 MB for Power Macintosh) available to Acrobat Reader Apple System Software version 7.0 or later recommended.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

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.

Catlin traveled throughout the American West from 1832 to 1840. He sketched and painted hundreds of portraits, village scenes, religious rituals and games and wrote of his encounters with these fascinating people as he worked.