Catlin, George
artist, author, was born in 1796 in Wilkesbarre, Pa. He was an artist who spent many years among the Indians; and the author of Notes of Eight Years in Europe; Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians; Notes for the Emigrant to America; Life Among the Indians, a Book for Youth; The Breath of Life, or Mal-Respiration and its Effects; O-Kee-Pa, a Religious Ceremony, and other Customs of the Mandans; Last Rambles Among the Indians of the Rocky Mountains; and The Lifted and Subsided Rocks of America. He died Dec. 23, 1872, in Jersey City, N. J.