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With Pen and Pencil on the Frontier in 1851: The Diary and Sketches of Frank Blackwell Mayer (Borealis Books)

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In 1851 Frank Blackwell Mayer, a talented young artist from Baltimore, traveled to Minnesota Territory to attend the signing of the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux between the Dakota Indians and the US government. “He went,” notes Bertha Heilbron in the introduction, “not to take part in the negotiations, but to observe Indian life to start with hand and to find subjects for his brush and pencil… With a sure stroke he pictured the scenes and the inhabitants—red and white—of the frontier; with a fluent pen he described all that he saw through the sensitive eye of the artist.”

Mayer’s diary is a go back and forth narrative, an eyewitness account of a critical treaty signing, and a candid personal view of the development of the artist in mid-nineteenth century The usa. His words and drawings offer a full of life and necessary resource for historians of art and the frontier, in addition to readers of regional history.

This edition includes an additional section of Mayer’s diary that used to be found out after the book used to be first published in 1932. Bertha Heilbron’s helpful introductions and annotation provide necessary historical information for both parts oif this valuable document.

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