The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world; there is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.

to buy the collection failed. In 1841 Catlin publiGeorge Catlind Manners Customs and Condition of the North American Indians in two volumes with about 300 engravings. He hung his paintings “salon style”—side by side and one above another—to great effect.

George Catlin (July 26 1796 – December 23 1872) was an American painter author and traveler who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the Old West.