The Buffalo Hunt: Surrounding the Herd
$2,850 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books
A very rare Currier and Ives issue of Catlin's classic image of life on the Western Plains before the coming of the white man. Nathaniel Currier & James Ives, the most successful print publishers of their era, published only a few of Catlin's images and all are now particularly rare. Catlin summarized the Native American as an honest, hospitable, faithful, brave, warlike, cruel, revengeful, relentless, yet honourable, contemplative and religious being . In a famous
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