Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians in England, France, and Belgium; Vol. 1 (of 2): being Notes of Eight Years' Travels and Residence in Europe with his North American Indian CollectionCatlin, George
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Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians in England, France, and Belgium; Vol. 1 (of 2): being Notes of Eight Years' Travels and Residence in Europe with his North American Indian Collection
Catlin, George
England -- Description and travel; France -- Description and travel; Indians of North America
372. View on Upper Missouri--View in the Grand Détour, 1900
miles above St. Louis. Magnificent clay bluffs, with red
pumice-stone resting on their tops, and a party of Indians
approaching buffalo.
373. View on Upper Missouri--Beautiful Grassy Bluffs, 110 miles
above St Louis.
374. View on Upper Missouri--Prairie Meadows burning, and a party
of Indians running from it in grass eight or ten feet high.
These scenes are terrific and hazardous in the extreme when the
wind is blowing a gale.
375. View on Upper Missouri--Prairie Bluffs burning.
376. View on Upper Missouri--"Floyd's Grave," where Lewis and
Clarke buried Serjeant Floyd thirty-three years since; a
cedar post and sign over the grave.
377. View on Upper Missouri--Sioux encamped, dressing
buffalo-meat, and robes.
378. View on Upper Missouri--"The Tower," 1100 miles above St.
Louis.
379. View on upper Missouri--Distant view of the Mandan Village,
1800 miles above St. Louis.
380. View on Upper Missouri--Picturesque Clay Bluff, 1700 miles
above St. Louis.
381. View on Upper Missouri--"Belle Vue"--Indian Agency of Major
Dougherty, 870 miles above St. Louis.
382. View on Upper Missouri--Beautiful Clay Bluffs, 1900 miles
above St. Louis.
383. View on Upper Missouri--Minatarree Village, earth-covered
lodges, on Knife River, 1810 miles above St. Louis. Bàtiste,
Bogard, and myself ferried across the river by an Indian
woman, in a skin canoe, and Indians bathing in the stream.
384. View on Upper Missouri--Fort Pierre, Mouth of Teton
River--Fur Company's trading-post, 1200 miles above St.
Louis, with 600 lodges of Sioux Indians encamped about it, in
skin lodges.
385. View on Upper Missouri--Nishnabottana Bluffs, 1070 miles
above St. Louis.
386. View on Upper Missouri--Riccaree Village, with earth-covered
lodges, 1600 miles above St. Louis.
387. View on Upper Missouri--South side of "Buffalo Island,"
showing the beautiful buffalo-bush, with its blue leaves, and
bending down with fruit.
388. View on Upper Missouri--Mouth of Yellow Stone--Fur Company's
Fort, their principal post, 2000 miles above St. Louis, and a
large party of Knisteneux encamped about it.
389. View on Upper Missouri--the "Iron Bluff," 1200 miles above
St. Louis, a beautiful subject for a landscape.
390. View on Upper Missouri--View in the "Big Bend," 1900 miles
above St. Louis; showing the manner in which the conical
bluffs on that river are formed; table-lands in distance,
rising several hundred feet above the summit level of the
prairie.
391. View on Upper Missouri--View in the "Big Bend"--magnificent
clay bluffs, with high table-land in the distance.
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