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Wanderings of an artist among the Indians of North America: From Canada to Vancouver's Island and Oregon through the Hudson's Bay Company's territory and back again

Kane, Paul: 1810-1871. Born in Ireland; to British North America with family, 1819; studied art in USA, France, and Italy; returned to Canada, 1845; painter of Native life in the Northwest (Wallace, Dictionary of Canadian biography ). // Includes appendix: "Census of Indian tribes inhabiting the North-West coast of America, for the year 1846." Also published, London: Longman, 1861 (xvii, 455p.); with introduction and notes by Lawrence J. Burpee, Toronto: Radisson Society of Canada, 1925 (liv, 329p.); Edmonton: M.G. Hurtig, 1967 & 1974 (lxiv, 329p.); Rutland, Vt.: C.E. Tuttle, 1968 (lxiv, 329p.); Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1980 (xvii, 455p.); Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 1996 (xlviii, 329p.). Text of 1859 edition, except for appendix, included in Paul Kane's frontier, including wanderings of an artist among the Indians of North America , edited by J. Russell Harper, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1971 (xviii, 350p.). For Danish version see Peel 251; for French version see Peel 252; for German version see Peel 254. In 1846 Kane crossed the continent, studying and painting Natives as he went. Much of the summer was spent on the prairies. Kane m

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