Illustrations of the manners, customs, & condition of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 2) / With letters and notes, written during eight years of travel and adventure among the wildest and most remarkable tribes now existing

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U. STATES’ INDIAN FRONTIER IN 1840. Showing the Positions of the Tribes that have been removed west of the Mississippi.
With Letters and Notes,
Written during Eight Years of Travel and Adventure among the Wildest and most Remarkable Tribes now Existing.
By GEORGE CATLIN.
WITH THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY COLOURED ENGRAVINGS FROM THE AUTHOR’S ORIGINAL PAINTINGS.
IN TWO VOLUMES.—VOL. II.
London: CHATTO & WINDUS, PICCADILLY. 1876.
LETTERS AND NOTES ON THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS.
FORT LEAVENWORTH, LOWER MISSOURI .
The readers, I presume, will have felt some anxiety for me and the fate of my little craft, after the close of my last Letter; and I have the very great satisfaction of announcing to them that we escaped snags and sawyers , and every other danger, and arrived here safe from the Upper Missouri, where my last letters were dated. We, (that is, Ba’tiste, Bogard and I,) are comfortably quartered for awhile, in the barracks of this hospitable Cantonment, which is now the extreme Western military post on the frontier, and under the command of Colonel Davenport, a gentleman of great urbanity of manners, with a Roman head and a Grecian heart, restrained and tempered by the charms of an American lady, who has elegantly pioneered the graces of civilized refinements into these uncivilized regions.
This Cantonment, which is beautifully situated on the west bank of the Missouri River, and six hundred miles above its mouth, was constructed some years since by General Leavenworth, from whom it has taken its name. Its location is very beautiful, and so is the country around it. It is the concentration point of a number of hostile tribes in the vicinity, and has its influence in restraining their warlike propensities.