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Birth
1840 (Tappan, New York)
Death
1922 (Brookline, Massachusetts)
Lived/Active
Massachusetts/Kansas
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Indian-western genre, illustrator
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Western Painters
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| With a thirty-year career as a western illustrator based in New York City, William Cary made his first trip West in 1861 in an ox-wagon train along the Missouri River bound for Fort Benton where he narrowly escaped capture by the Crow Indians. From Fort Benton, he set out with a cook and guide and stayed at Fort Union for six weeks, where he observed life among the Assiniboine Indians nearby. He also signed on with a survey crew, which led him to the West Coast, and from there he took a ship bac (showing 500 of 4585 characters). |
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