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George Catlin (1796 –1872) was an American painter, author, and traveler of the Old West who specialized in portraits of Native Americans. Travelling to the American West five times during the 1830s, Catlin was the first white man to depict Plains Indians in their native territory. The author spent years traveling among the Indians of the Northwest and the prairies, noting their customs and recording his observations with pen and brush. In 1868 Catlin published "Last Rambles amongst the Indians of the Rocky Mountains and the Andes.""Last Rambles Amongst the Indians" is practically the second volume of his earlier book "Life Amongst the Indians". It is a good book of adventure entertainingly written from the author's own experiences. It gives the story of his wanderings in South America and western North America. Information about the peoples of the countries visited is given incidentally.In describing the Blackfeet's reactions to one of Catlin's Indian portraits, he writes: "Whilst seated in the chief’s lodge, where there were some six or eight men besides the chief, and endeavouring, as the necessary preliminary in all first interviews with Indians, to make the object of my visit distinctly known, I opened the portfolio of cartoon portraits, which all were examining with great interest and astonishment, and on turning up the fifth or sixth portrait, one of the party gave a sudden piercing yelp, and sprang upon his feet and commenced dancing in the most violent jumps and starts, and vociferating, “Bi-eets-e-cure! Bi-eets-ecure!” (the name of the young man), whose portrait I had painted at the mouth of the Yellow Stone twenty years before, and was now holding up."The portrait was recognized by all, and on their feet, and darting out of the wigwam, were three or four of the party, and through the village to where the women were drying fish, on the bank of the river, and back, re-entered the chief’s Wigwam, and with them, out of breath, and walking as if he was coming to the gallows, entered Bi-eets-e-cure. I instantly recognized him, and rising up, he took about half a minute to look me full in the eyes, without moving a muscle or winking, when he exclaimed, “how! how!” (yes, yes), and shook me heartily by the hand. I took up his portrait, and showing it to him, got the interpreter to say to him that I had “kept his face clean!” ContentsI. The Rattlesnakes’ Den.II. Gold Hunting in the Crystal MountainsIII. Descent of the YucayaliIV. THE FLATHEAD INDIANS.V. CALIFORNIAVI. Rio De JaneiroVII. Buenos AyresVIII. TIERRA DEL FUEGO.IX. THE INDIANS, WHERE FROMX. THE INDIANS, WHO ARE THEY?XI. THE INDIANS, WHERE ARE THEY GOING?
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