The several tribes of Indians inhabiting the regions of the Upper Missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last Letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the Continent.

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.