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

Product Description: To document the natural history and inhabitants of the American West, Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied selected the Swiss artist Karl Bodmer to accompany him on his 1833-34 expedition up the Missouri River. Beginning in St. Louis, they journeyed as far as inland waterways could take them, through present-day Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, and into Montana...read more

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

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

Product Description: 1982 Center for Western Studies large (and heavy) soft cover. A catalog of the Joslyn Art Museum's Western paintings - complete with bios of the artists. Color and B&W art reproductions. Bodner woodcuts. Beautiful catalog and educational.

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