View in the Grand Detour, 1900 Miles above St. Louis

George Catlin described this scene as “magnificent clay bluffs, with red pumice-stone resting on their tops, and a party of Indians approaching buffalo.” The artist painted this image in 1832 while on a lengthy voyage northwest on the Missouri River. (Catlin, 1848 Catalogue, Catlin’s Indian Gallery, SAAM online exhibition

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