A Crow Village and the Salmon River Mountains
In 1830, artist George Catlin moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where he convinced Gen. William Clark, the superintendent of Indian Affairs for Western Tribes, to escort him north to Fort Crawford on the Mississippi River in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. For the next six years, Catlin lived on-and-off with the tribes of the Plains and Rocky Mountains. His extraordinary artwork of the day-to-day lives of the Indigenous people he met and befriended is one
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