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People of the first man: Life Among the Plains Indians in their final days of glory / Print Prince Maximilian zu Wied. - New York Promontory Press 1982 - 256 p. Watercolors, b&w illustrations. Hardback book.
Illustrations from the Maximilian-Bedmer Collection owned by and used with special permission of the Northern Natural Gas Company, Omaha, Nebraska.
In 1833 the German explorer and naturalist, Prince Maximilian zu Wied, together with Karl Bodmer, his Swiss-born artist companion, traveled some 5,000 miles along the Missouri River during their year long sojourn with the Plains Indians. It became Maximilian's and Bedmer's dangerous task to live and travel among many tribes to record painstakingly their daily life and ceremonial activities. Maximilian's monumental narrative, which has long been regarded as one of the classics of early western exploration, is presented here in a carefully edited version supplemented with revealing and previously unpublished entries from his original field journal. Within a decade of Maximilian's return to Europe, Manifest Destiny, accompanied by smallpox and alcohol, led to the virtual extermination of the Plains culture.
0883949946
Karl Bodmer, illustrator; Davis Thomas, editor; Karin Ronnefeldt, editor.
Plains Indians - History - United States.--Culture - Plains Indians - United States.
978 Wie 15
People of the first man: Life Among the Plains Indians in their final days of glory / Print Prince Maximilian zu Wied. - New York Promontory Press 1982 - 256 p. Watercolors, b&w illustrations. Hardback book.
Illustrations from the Maximilian-Bedmer Collection owned by and used with special permission of the Northern Natural Gas Company, Omaha, Nebraska.
In 1833 the German explorer and naturalist, Prince Maximilian zu Wied, together with Karl Bodmer, his Swiss-born artist companion, traveled some 5,000 miles along the Missouri River during their year long sojourn with the Plains Indians. It became Maximilian's and Bedmer's dangerous task to live and travel among many tribes to record painstakingly their daily life and ceremonial activities. Maximilian's monumental narrative, which has long been regarded as one of the classics of early western exploration, is presented here in a carefully edited version supplemented with revealing and previously unpublished entries from his original field journal. Within a decade of Maximilian's return to Europe, Manifest Destiny, accompanied by smallpox and alcohol, led to the virtual extermination of the Plains culture.
0883949946
Karl Bodmer, illustrator; Davis Thomas, editor; Karin Ronnefeldt, editor.
Plains Indians - History - United States.--Culture - Plains Indians - United States.
978 Wie 15