Peter Rindisbacher
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Peter Rindisbacher was a Swiss artist. He specialized in watercolors and illustrations dealing with First Nation tribes of mid-Western Canada and the United States, mostly depictions of the Anishinaab
Peter Rindisbacher
Chippewa Scalp dance ca.1820s, Army West Point Museum
Extremely wearisome journeys at the portages (1821)
Cold night camp on the inhospitable shores of Lake Winnipeg (1821)
Red River Trails
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The Red River Trails were a network of ox cart routes connecting the Red River Colony and Fort Garry in British North America with the head of navigation on the Mississippi River in the United States.
Peter Rindisbacher
…River Colony, and Indians and animals in west-central Canada and the midwestern United States, including the Chippewa and Metis people living along the Red River Trails. At age 23, upon moving to St. Louis, Rindisbacher established an artist's studio, where he also produced illustrations for magazines and book covers…
Métis drivers and ox carts at a rest stop
Fur trader and cart train operator Norman Kittson
An ox cart seen at the end of the trail in Saint Paul
Red River cart at Saint Cloud