| Francis Blackwell Mayer was born in 1827 in Baltimore, Maryland. He studied there under Alfred Miller, the well-known painter of the West. It is unknown whether Mayer had a natural interest in Indians or was inspired by his contact with Miller, but he went to sketch the Sioux in the Minnesota Territory in 1851. Mayer was a young man without much artistic training, but his sketches and thoughts on his travels were published in 1932, long after his death, as "With Pen and Pencil on the Frontier in (showing 500 of 4029 characters). |
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