North American Indians: Being Letters and Notes on Their Manners, Customs, and Conditions, Written during Eight Years' Travel amongst the Wildest Tribes of Indians in North America, 1832-1839, in Two Volumes

viii, 264, [4]; viii, 266, [10] pp. Blue cloth, gilt titles. Black-and-white illustrations and maps. "A collection of works by reporter and painter George Catlin presents a record of the last high afternoon of glory for the Native American nations west of the Mississippi and brings into sharp view his compassion for their plight."