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    Alfred Jacob Miller (January 2, 1810 – June 26, 1874) was an American artist best known for his paintings of trappers and Native Americans in the fur...
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  • Records accompanying sketches by Alfred Jacob Miller document mid-19th century usage of the term in the United States. Miller wrote notes in 1858-1860 for...
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  • Alfred Miller may refer to: Alfred Henry Miller, American football player Alfred Jacob Miller, painter Alf Miller (1917–1999), English footballer, mostly...
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    better way across, even if it was not an easy way. Founded in 1810 by John Jacob Astor as a subsidiary of his American Fur Company (AFC), the Pacific Fur...
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    together as far as the Green River fur-trade rendezvous. In 1837, Alfred Jacob Miller created sketches during his 1837 expedition through the Green River...
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    Yell of Triumph, a painting by Alfred Jacob Miller depicting Native American hunters gathering around a mortally wounded buffalo, and engaging in a victory...
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    continued when other firms, particularly the American Fur Company owned by John Jacob Astor, entered the field. The annual rendezvous was often held at Horse...
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    weeping: the epic story of the Indian wars for the American West. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. pp. 17–18. ISBN 978-0-307-95804-4. Pritzker, Barry M. A Native...
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    seven years in the 1830s. In 1837 he took along the American artist, Alfred Jacob Miller, hiring him to do sketches of the trip. Many of his completed oil...
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    Hollmann, Five Artists of the Old West: George Catlin, Karl Bodmer, Alfred Jacob Miller, Charles M. Russell [and] Frederic Remington (1965). Gregory Nobles...
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    The Lady Apothecary, by Alfred Jacob Miller (between 1825 and 1870). Walters Art Museum, Baltimore....
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    The Trapper's Bride by Alfred Jacob Miller, 1837...
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    easier than cattle. Bison being chased off a cliff as painted by Alfred Jacob Miller Ulm Pishkun. Buffalo jump, SW of Great Falls, Montana. The Blackfoot...
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    Fort William before being sold to the American Fur Company in 1841. (John Jacob Astor, the founder, had left his company a decade before.) The name was...
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    white and Indigenous cultures, and could interpret. According to historian Jacob A. Schooley, the Métis developed over at least two generations and within...
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    Buffalo being chased off a cliff, painted by Alfred Jacob Miller in the late 19th century....
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    The first Fort Laramie as it looked before 1840 (painting from memory by Alfred Jacob Miller)...
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    This painting by Alfred Jacob Miller portrays Plains Indians chasing buffalo over a small cliff. The Walters Art Museum....
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    Manifest Destiny". The paranoid style in American politics: and other essays. Alfred A. Knopf. OCLC 2360240. Horsman, Reginald (1981). Race and manifest destiny:...
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    7th Baronet of Blair, 1837, by Alfred Jacob Miller...
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    Alfred Jacob Miller - Sioux Indians in the Mountains - Miller en route to a Rocky Mountain Rendezvous In the spring of 1837, Captain William Drummond...
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    them. Parades across cultures Triumph of Caesar, Andreani (1588/9) Alfred Jacob Miller Cavalcade by the Snake Indians (1858–60) Parade from the onlooker...
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    that sold furs, skins, and buffalo robes. It was founded in 1808, by John Jacob Astor, a German immigrant to the United States. During its heyday in the...
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    "Old Bill" Williams Old Bill Williams by Alfred Jacob Miller Born (1787-01-03)January 3, 1787 Polk County, North Carolina Died March 14, 1849(1849-03-14)...
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    'Bourgeois' W---r, and His Squaw (A French trapper and a Native American woman) 1858–1860, by Alfred Jacob Miller (1810–1874)...
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    Alfred Jacob Miller - Interior of Fort Laramie - Google Art Project. One of the most important treaties between the Plains Indians was negotiated near...
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    Snake Indians - testing bows, circa 1837 by Alfred Jacob Miller, the Walters Art Museum...
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    (August 1989). "The Morning Star ceremony of the Skiri Pawnee as described by Alfred C. Haddon". The Plains Anthropologist. 34 (125): 193–203. doi:10.1080/2052546...
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  • Identity: A Pattern of Evolution". Anthropos. 78 (1): 71–88. JSTOR 40461005. Jacobs, B. (2000). International law/the great law of peace. Saskatoon: University...
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    "Don't Give Up That Ship!", a depiction of Lawrence's death by Alfred Jacob Miller...
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