Print by John Cameron depicts, in the left foreground, two trappers with horses and pack animals waiting and watching on guard; in the middle ground, a trapper and a Native American ride toward each other to talk; in the background, more Native Americ...
Print reproduces a drawing of Native Americans hunting buffalo on plains; in foreground, center-right, a bison chased by a Native American on horseback who is armed with bow and arrow; mid-ground, left, another Native American on horseback; background...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Book Club of California
Subject (Geographic):
Great Plains
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Hunting, American bison, and Overland journeys to the Pacific
Print depicts a herd of bison on the Great Plains; several bison face the viewer in the foreground; grassland swells into low hills in middle-and back-ground; filled with bison; the top half of the image is sky
Description:
BEIN BrSides Zc10 862ha: State before title and imprint letters.
Poster for the Indian Court exhibit at the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco, showing two mounted Native Americans hunting one buffalo, in blue, red, black, and ocher on a pale cream background
Alternative Title:
From an Indian painting on elkskin, Great Plains
Description:
BEIN BrSides Zc12 939in 7: From the library of Alfred Heller.
Publisher:
Federal Art Project, WPA
Subject (Geographic):
Great Plains, California, and San Francisco
Subject (Name):
Golden Gate International Exposition
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Hunting, Commemoration, Subsistence activities, Arts & crafts, and Bison hunting
The Edwin James letterbook consists of letters to his brother John from 1819 to 1825. The letters chronicle Edwin James's appointment as doctor, geologist, and botanist with Stephen Long's 1820 expedition to the Rocky Mountains. The letters describe ...
Description:
Edwin James (1797-1861), naturalist, specializing in geology, explorer, doctor in the United States Army.
Subject (Geographic):
United States., Fort Crawford (Wis.), Great Plains, Missouri, Ohio River Valley, Prairie du Chien (Wis.), United States, and West (U.S.)
Subject (Name):
James, Edwin, 1797-1861., James, John, fl. 1797-1825., Reed, Silas, 1807-1886., Long, Stephen H. 1784-1864. (Stephen Harriman),, and Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864.
Subject (Topic):
Geology, Description and travel, and Discovery and exploration
