The American West Midterm- Images

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-"Great Mound at Grave Creek," Ephraim George Squire (1848), woodcut

-Shows a mound dating back to pre-contact Native Americans, although most of the settlers in the image most likely believed that the mounds had not been built by Native Americans, thinking that they could not possibly be advanced enough.

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Frederick Catherwood, "Stone Idol," (1841), watercolor

-Excellent example of Catherwood’s eye for ancient artifacts, demonstrates that highly advanced civilizations once lived in the Americas, even if the settlers didn’t believe them to be the same as the American Indians they encountered.

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Powhatan's Mantle (1608), Native American artifact

-shows the skilled craftsmanship of eastern native Americans, disproving yet again that they were supposedly incapable of artwork

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-Woodcut of Columbian encounter, Carlos Verardi, Historica Baetica (1494)

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Woodcut of Columbian encounter, Giuliano Dati, La lettera dellisole che ha trouata nuovamente il Re dispagna (1493)

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"The Fabulous Races of Mankind," Hartmann Schedel, Liber chronicarum [The Nuremberg Chronicle] (1493), woodcut

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Johann Froschauer, woodcut of American cannibals, Amerigo Vespucci, De nuouo mundo (1505)

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Engraving of Jacques LeMoyne "The native queen on her litter," Theodore De Bry, America part two (1590)

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John White, watercolors of native warrior, mother and child (1585)

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Engraving of John White watercolor of native warrior, Theodore De Bry (1590)

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Burning Mexican books, Historia de Tlaxcala (c 1581-84), drawing?

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Aztecs attack Spainards in Tenochititlan, Codex Duran (1576), watercolor?

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Meeting of Cortes and Montezuma, Lienzo de Tlaxcala (c 1560), watercolor?

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"Casting Sodomites to the Dogs," Theodore De Bry, America, part four (1594) (type?)

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The Great Dying, Florentine Codex (c 1570) (pen and ink?)

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Cartouche from William Faden, "A Map of the Inhabited Part of Canada" (1777) (woodcut/drawing?)

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Engraving of French joining the Hurons in war against the Iroquois, Samuel de Champlain, Les Voyages (1613)

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Engravings of Indians, Joseph Francois Lafitau, Moeurs des Savaugaes Ameriques (1724)

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Benjamin West, "Penn's Treaty with the Indians," (1772) (painting)

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"The Paxton Boys murder Conestoga Indians, 1764" (ink drawing?)

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Engraving of buffalo, Louis Hennepin, A New Discovery of a Vast Country in America (1698)

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"Habitants de Californie," Louis Choris, Voyage pittoresque autour du monde (1822), watercolor?

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Sigismund Bacstrom, drawings and sketches of the Northwest Coast (1791-95)

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24- John Webber, "Death of Cook," James Cook, Voyage to the Pacific (1784) (drawing/watercolor?)

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25- John Webber, "A Young Woman of the Sandwich Islands," (1784) (drawing? woodcut?)

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26- George Caleb Bingham, "Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers Through Cumberland Gap," (1851-52), painting

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27- "Jolly Flatboatmen" (1848) George Caleb Bingham, lithograph

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George Caleb Bingham "Stump Speaking" (1854), first painting then lithograph

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29- Titlepage, John Caspter Wild, The Valley of the Mississippi Illustrated (1846)

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30- Girdling and burning trees, from George Harvey (1841), watercolor

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31- Indian atrocities, Hanna Lewis, Narrative of the Captivity and Providential Escape of Mrs. James Lewis (1834), woodcut

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32- George Winter, "Potawatomie Chiefs" and "Pottawotomie Emigration" (1837) painting and drawing, respectively

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Wilson S. Armistead, "Slaves being driven to the Mississippi frontier" (1848)

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34- Lewis and Clark woodcuts, Patrick Gass (1812)

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35- "Sioux Queen," W.R. Jones, Travels of Capts. Lewis and Clark (1809). Woodcut?

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36- Karl Bodmer, "Interior of a Mandan Indian Earth Lodge," "Mother and Child," and "Dance of the Mandan Buffalo Society" (1835) Watercolors

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37- Alfred Jacob Miller, "Snake Girl Swinging" and "Giving a Drink to a Thirsty Trapper" (1837) watercolors

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38- George Catlin, "Pidgeon Head Going to and Returning from Washington" and "The Buffalo Dance" (1844) watercolors

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39- "Entrance of the Wagons into Santa Fe," Josiah Gregg, Commerce of the Prairies (1844) drawing

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40- B. F. Upton, "Red River Half-Breeds and Carts," (c 1857) daguerreotype?

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41- Albert Bierstadt, "Emigrants Crossing the Plains" (1867) painting

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42- Emmanuel Leutz, "Westward the Course of Empire" (1864) painting **hangs in congress

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43- Richard Caton Woodville, "News From Mexico" (1848) painting

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44- "Battle of Cerro Gordo" (1847) (painting)

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45- Sam Chamberlain, "Monclova with Mexican Market at our Encampment " (c 1848) watercolor

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46- John Gast, "American Progress" (1872) painting

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47- "Sgt. Frederick Wylyams, killed by Sioux" (1867) photograph

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48- Otto Becker, "Custer's Last Fight" (1896) chromolithograph

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49- "Protecting the Settlers" Harper's (1861), lithograph

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50- William Sidney Mount, "California News" (1850), painting

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51- Joseph B. Starkweather, four daguerreotypes (1852)

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52- "Seeing the Elephant" (1850), drawing

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53- "A Live Woman in the Mines," Alonzo Delano, Pen Knife Sketches (1853), drawing then woodcut?

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54- Alfred A. Hart, "Long Ravine Bridge from below" (1865), stereocard

note that the train is moving east to west, always positioned that way for photographs

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55- Andrew J. Russell, "Carmichael's Camp, Bitter Creek, near Green River," and "East and West Shaking Hands at Laying of Last Rail" (1869), photographs

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56- Thomas Houseworth, "Woodtrain and Chinamen in Bloomer Cut" (1868), photograph

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57- Thomas Hill, "Driving the Last Spike" (1881), painting

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58-James Walker, "California Vacqueros" (1876), painting

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59- "A Drove of Texas Cattle Crossing a Stream" Harper’s Weekly, 19 October 1867

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60- Charles Russell, "Waiting for a Chinook" and "In Without Knocking" (1886)

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61- Solomon D. Butcher, "William A. Shelbourn Ranch on the Snake River, south of Valentine, Cherry County, Nebraska" (1900), photograph

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62- John Green, "Isom Dart," (c. 1885), photograph

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63- "Typical cow boy," Kodak album (c. 1895), photograph

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64- Frederic Remington, "The Cowboy" (1902), painting

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65- "Chaps. The new men's cologne by Ralph Lauren" (1975), magazine advertisement

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66- William S. Soule, "Captives, Fort Dodge, Kansas" (1868), photograph

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67- Solomon D. Butcher, "Emigrants at the Gates P.O., Custer County" (1886), "The Shores family near Westerville, Custer County, Nebraska" (1887), and "The Chrisman Sisters on a claim in
Goheen settlement, on Lillian Creek, Custer County, Nebraska" (c 1890), all photos

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68- "Homes in the West" (1871), newspaper print

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69- Andrew J. Russell, "Mormon Family" (1869) photograph