| Title | : | Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians: Volume I of II |
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| ISBN | : | - |
| Format Type | : | Kindle Edition |
| Number of Pages | : | 324 |
| Publication | : | First published September 12, 2013 |
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Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians: Volume I of II Reviews
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Hi everyone. I was lead to read this book by a paragraph in one of those Time Life "western" books titled The Explorers or something like that. The author, George Catlin did a lot of time in the upper Missouri river valley living near and with Native Americans. In his writing it shows his love for the tribes. The book is a bunch of what he calls letters and epistles about his experiences and views of the tribes in the area. I found it excellent since I was interested in a valid account of the Native American in the "Old West". He writes a very clear and believable scene which puts you right there. I would have given the book 5 stars except that the book was a copy of his work and the copy was poor work. One of the most fascinating parts of the book are his illustrations of the writings. Catlin was an artist and the Indians often liked sitting for him to be painted. But this particular book, which is the only volume one of this work that I could find, was a poorly done copy of the illustrations and even the print. Some of the illustrations are so bad that all you can see is a few of what looks like pencil lines, and the print is small and lacks detail enough that there were words I could not make out. Some of the pages actually showed the outline of the border of the page being copied on the page in this book. I have volume two already and it is way above and beyond in quality compared to this book. Enough bitching about the major disappointment of this book. If you have an interest in this subject, I consider this an excellent read. The fact that this publication is the only volume one I could find and was so easy to get means anyone wanting to read it may be stuck with it like me. I do intend to read volume two, and like I said, my copy has wonderful illustrations, some even in color, and appears to be a much better body of work. I would be interested to hear from anyone who knows of a better volume one because I would like to peruse it just to see valid illustrations. So far, the people I have talked to don't even know about this book. Those people have all been Barnes and Noble workers and they just look at me when I complain about the publishing work in this one. Anyway, I enjoyed the iteration of his experiences. Some of them are very wild and wooly, not so much experiencing an Indian attack, but their savage religious rituals, and the buffalo (bison) hunts. This was written before all the bison were wiped out, which he predicted, and the Natives were put on reservations, which he didn't. If you do try to read this book I hope you find a good copy and enjoy it.
