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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.

~George Catlin

Topics: Clap Face Fair Fathers Fire Graves Ground Hand Him His Hunting Last Look Mouth Over Sadness Seen Set Setting Setting Sun Silence Smooth Sun Take Turn

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The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.

~George Catlin

Topics: Abuse Am Applied Believe General Inclined People Savage Sense Use Very Whom Word I Am

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I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.

~George Catlin

Topics: Approach Away Boundless Civilization Forests Many Melting Men Noble Now Over Past Prairie Races Red Spread Who Years

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The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance: and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.

~George Catlin

Topics: Acquaintance Always Appearance Been Civil Crows First Friendly Handsome Indians Made Personal Since Them Very

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Thank God, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.

~George Catlin

Topics: Able Am God Over Seen Tell Thank Thank God World

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An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.

~George Catlin

Topics: Also Back Clean Deer Down Dress Even First His Hundred Hundred Times Indian Lodge Put Rains Severity Skins Soft Stands Taken Through Times Up Wet Which Winter

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A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure; the greater part of the men being six feet high.

~George Catlin

Topics: Beautiful Being Crow Dress Elegant Feet Figure Greater He High His Known Men Met Part Six Tall Wherever White

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The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world; there is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.

~George Catlin

Topics: Appearance Character Different Enter Felt Manner Mississippi Missouri Moment Muddy Other Perhaps Rivers Sensibly Terror Waters Which World

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The several tribes of Indians inhabiting the regions of the Upper Missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last Letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the Continent.

~George Catlin

Topics: Any Beautifully Best Continent Equipped Finest Indians Last Letter Looking Missouri Most Regions Several Spoke Tribes Undoubtedly Upper Whom

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: Unknown

Died: December 23rd, 1872

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