People of the first man: Life among the Plains Indians in their final days of glory : the firsthand account of Prince Maximilian's expedition up the Missouri River, 1833-34

An English edition of the german Prince Maximilian's jounal about his upper Missoury expedition in 1833-34.The journal and the beautiful watercolors by Karl Bodmer, are an invaluable ethnografic source on the life and customs of the upper Missoury indians and the fur trade era.The esteems of this edition are that it includes almost all the original watercolors realized by Bodmer during the expedition, and extracs from the original Maximilian journal that were not published in the original edition. On the other hand the heavy editorial crops makes "People of the First Man" not enough for the serious scolar.