Smithsonian American Art Museum
Buffalo Chase, Mouth of the Yellowstone
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1832-1833
George Catlin described this scene as “animals dying on the ground passed over; and my man Batiste swamped in crossing a creek.” He made the sketch on the Upper Missouri in 1832. (Catlin, 1848 Catalogue, Catlin’s Indian Gallery, SAAM online exhibition)
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