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Alfred Jacob Miller, An Indian Camp (1858-1860). Watercolor on paper. Courtesy of the Walter Museum of Art

Other Artwork of The American Elsewhere

This list includes artwork mentioned but not reproduced in The American Elsewhere. Click on the images for larger full-color versions and for more information. A select portrait gallery of adventurers mentioned in the book follows.  All Alfred Jacob Miller works link to the Fur Traders and Rendezvous website. All images under Fair Use.
p. 84, 254. Charles Deas, Voyageurs (1846). Oil on canvas. Courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
p. 128. George Catlin, Wi-jun-jon, Pigeon's Egg Head (1837-1839). Oil on canvas. Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
p. 144. Alfred Jacob Miller, An Indian Camp (1858-1860). Watercolor on paper. Courtesy of the Walters Art Museum.
p. 148. Alfred Jacob Miller, The Scalp-Lock (1858-1860). Watercolor on paper. Courtesy of the Walters Art Museum.
p. 150, 152. Alfred Jacob Miller, Big Bowl (A Crow Chief) (1858-1860). Watercolor heightened with white on paper. Courtesy of the Walters Art Museum. Links to Walters Museum.
p. 178. George Catlin, Seet-se-be-a, Midday Sun, a Pretty Girl (1832). Oil on canvas. Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
p. 189. Alfred Jacob Miller, The Trapper's Bride (1858-1859). Watercolor heightened with white on paper. Courtesy of the Walters Art Museum.
p. 198. George Catlin, Dance to the Berdash (1835-1837). Oil on canvas. Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
p. 212. Alfred Jacob Miller, The Lost Greenhorn (1858-1860). Watercolor on paper. Courtesy of the Walters Art Museum.
p. 288. Baker & Godwin, Col. Fremont Planting the American Standard on the Rocky Mountains (1856). Wood engraving with letterpress. Courtesy of the Library of Congress
George Catlin by John Neagle (1825). Oil on canvas. Courtesy of the Gilcrease Museum.
Joseph M. Chadwick by George Catlin  (1835). Photographic copy. Courtesy of the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections, University of Virginia. From a photograph of the original not owned by the University of Virginia. Link opens a .pdf file. For more on Chadwick's story, visit the Elsewheres blog.
Benjamin Franklin Coons by unknown photographer (n.d.). Courtesy of the El Paso County Historical Society. Links to El Paso Museum of History.
John S. Ford by unknown photographer (c. 1858). Ambrotype. Courtery of Heritage Auctions.
John Charles Fremont by William Smith Jewett (n.d.). Oil on canvas. Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery.
Lewis H. Garrard by unknown artist. Photographic copy based on an 1846 daguerreotype. From Blanche C. Grant's When Old Trails Were New (1934). Link opens a .pdf file.
Edwin James by unknown artist. Photographic copy based on an undated minature on ivory. From The Annals of Iowa, 7 (October 1907): 160. Link opens a .pdf file.
George Wilkins Kendall by unknown artist (c. 1837). Oil painting. Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Texas at Arlington Libraries.
Alfred Jacob Miller, Self-Portrait (c. 1850). Oil on canvas. Courtesy of the Walters Art Museum.
Francis Parkman by Southworth and Hawes (c. 1850). Daguerreotype. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Jedediah Smith by unknown artist (c. 1835). Reportedly drawn by a friend soon after Smith's death. From Maurice Sullivan, The Travels of Jedediah Smith (1934). Links to Wikimedia Commons.
Samuel H. Walker by unknown photographer (c. 1847). Daguerreotype. Courtesy of Heritage Auctions.
Charles Wilkins Webber by unknown artist (c. 1855). Sketch portrait. From Evert A. Duyckinck and George L. Duyckinck, Cyclopedia of American Literature, Vol. II (1856). Links to a jpeg file.