15 Quotes by George Catlin

No tragedian ever trod the stage, nor gladiator ever entered the Roman Forum, with more grace and manly dignity, than did Four Bears as he arrived for his sitting.

I have visited forty-eight different tribes, the greater part of which I found speaking different languages, and containing in all 400,000 souls.

If my life be spared, nothing shall stop me short of visiting every nation of Indians on the Continent of North America.

The several tribes of Indians inhabiting the regions of the Upper Missouri. . . are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the Continent.

An Indian’s dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.

A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure; the greater part of the men being six feet high.