Product Description: Less than thirty years after Lewis and Clark completed their epic journey, Prince Maximilian of Wied—a German naturalist—and his entourage set off on their own daring expedition across North America. Accompanying the prince on this 1832–34 voyage was Swiss artist Karl Bodmer, whose drawings and watercolors—designed to illustrate Maximilian’s journals—now rank among the great treasures of nineteenth-century American art...read more

Collects the work of Swiss painter Karl Bodmer while on a journey up the Missouri River in 1833-1834, and annotations and examinations credit the artist with having painted some of the best representations of the American West.

Illustrations and descriptive commentaries document the social history of the American frontier

Prints depict Indians, Indian life and culture, miners, cowboys, ranch life, and Western landscapes, and are accompanied by a brief profile of the artist

Looks at the nineteenth-century Swiss artist's watercolors and drawings of the American West, Indians, and Western wildlife

Product Description: Commemorating the 150th anniversary of the expedition of the German prince Maximilian of Wied and the Swiss artist Karl Bodmer to North America, the traveling exhibition “Views of a Vanishing Frontier” visually recreates the historic journey into the early-nineteenth-century wilderness...read more

Trade Paperback; Near Fine; Trade Paperback. Near Fine/Paper Wraps. 5.50 x 9". Light edgewear, 3 dogeared pages, otherwise fine. A guide to Oklahoma's museums and attractions, including antiques, art, cattle trails, culture, dolls, guns, history, Indians, military, minerals, natural history, oil, pioneers, railroads, special libraries and archives, sports, and zoos. 147 pages, index, illustrated with B&W photos, drawings, and maps; foreword by Alvin O. Turner