Wanderings of an Artist Among the Indians of North America From Canada to Vancouver's Island and Oregon Through the Hudson's Bay Company's Territory and Back Again
Toronto: The Radisson Society of Canada, 1925. First Thus. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. liv, 329. Frontis. black & white reproduction of a portrait of the author. Foreword by the editor, John W. Garvin. Introduction by Lawrence J. Burpee. Illustrated with black & white illustrations and reproductions. Notes. Bound in burgundy-colored cloth; spine lettered in gilt; gilt floral illustrations to spine. Clean throughout. Near Fine. Item #12711
Paul Kane (1810-1871), Irish-born itinerant painter, was inspired by George Catlin's works to document American Indian life and culture in paintings and field sketches. Tweney notes that during his travels Kane spent time at the Whitman Mission in Walla Walla, where he sketched the only known likeness of Dr Whitman made from life, and warned Whitman of his perilous position with the Indians. TWENEY, 38; SMITH, 5393.
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