Artwork of Karl Bodmer at the Joslyn Museum

 Karl Bodmer was a Swiss artisgt and print maker.  He traveled with Prince Maximilian up the Missouri River in 1832-1834.  Karl Bodmer was the artist and made sketches and paintings of Native Americans and the landscape.  They can only display so many of the paintings but there are over 400 on line at the museum website.

Fox River near New Harmony

Bullboats and figures

Bullboats and figures

Women of the Mandan White Buffalo Cow Society 

Hidatsa Village

Bison-Dance of the Mandan Indians in Front of their Medicine Lodge

Prince Charles zu Wied, Prince Maximillian zu Weid and his brother Charles

Federick Remington: Art for Children by Ernest Raboff, J.B. Lippincott, New York, 1973.

This book gives a brief history of Frederick Remington, who was born in Canton, New York in 1861 and died and died in 1909.  He is credited with almost 3000 drawing and paintings.  He also created bronze sculptures and wrote eight books.  He was famous because of his art by the time he thirty.  His most common theme was the West, mountain men, cowboys and Native Americans.  In his drawings he documented the changes which took place in the West and the changing native American economy.  The book mentions the material is copyrighted so I have borrowed a couple pictures from the internet which are representative of the illustrations in the book.