I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers... clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.

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.