Buffalo Bull (La-doo-ke-a) (Chaui). Plate 140. Catlin. The Manners, Customs and Condition of the North American Indians. London, 1892. Archives & Rare Books Department, University Libraries, University of Cincinnati.
Following his visit to the Mandan Villages, Catlin continued downstream, stopping at Fort Leavenworth to paint tribes of the Middle Missouri: Omaha, Kansas, Oto, and Pawnee. This portrait of Buffalo Bull, Grand Pawnee Warrior, was executed at Fort Leavenworth. Catlin reached St. Louis on October 20.
Catlin was not the first to paint Indians in the Transmississippi West, nor was he the only artist to paint in the American West in the early 19th century. However, the number and scope of his works makes them an invaluable record for the historian and ethnologist. Catlin produced both images and text of his observations and these constitute some of the finest documentary records of "The Far West."
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