... lawyer, but turned to portrait painting as his first love. However when he encountered a group of Far West Native American braves, he resolved to paint and study Native American culture. So he began an epic journey through the Midwest and the west from 1829 to 1838, ... traveling across the frontier and living among some 48 separate tribes while he painted their portraits, over six hundred, in fact. He published plates of these paintings along with a fairly thorough documentation of what he encountered in 1842 in Notes ... regarding his early training. He certainly knew the work of the ...

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