Map+of+George+Catlin's+Route

This map shows the routes the George Catlin followed on his journeys to the West and compares them to Lewis and Clark's trail (in bright green).



Sources include:

Base map (republished in SAAM’s book on Catlin from 2002):

Outline map of Indian Localities in 1833. From George Catlin, //Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians,// vol. 1 (1841). Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Washington, D.C.

The information on Catlin’s routes comes from a different map, and was overlaid on the map above. It is:

Map on page 487 of John Canfield Ewers, //George Catlin: Painter of Indians of the// West (Washington, D.C.: 1957).