Alfred Jacob Miller wrote captions for the paintings he made for William Walters in 1858, however no extensive verbal descriptions from the time of his ...
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What comes to mind when you think of a mountain man’s attire? Maybe a hooded capote, a flat-brimmed felt hat, or a beaver or buffalo ...
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Alfred Jacob Miller produced at least 85 paintings or sketches that include Wind River mountain lakes. They were one of his favorite subjects and provided ...
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The artwork of Alfred J. Miller provides historians with images of men who appear in the journals of the trappers and traders who ventured into ...
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This third of a three-part series on the history of America’s fur business describes what happened to America’s most famous fur companies, and the men ...
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This second of a three-part series on the history of America’s fur business describes the activities of several of the smaller and the two largest ...
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This first of a three-part series on the history of America’s fur business describes the social backgrounds, business strategies, and economic paths of the men ...
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When artist Alfred Jacob Miller, as a member of the American Fur Company caravan, reached the 1837 Green River valley rendezvous he became the only ...
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Sir William Drummond Stewart and his entourage passed several rousing weeks encamped in the shadow of the Wind River Mountains during the summer of 1837. ...
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Alfred Jacob Miller was one of several artists who had the opportunity to portray Native Americans in the West of the 1830s, but he was ...
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Miller lived in Baltimore all his adult life, and he is often thought of as being something of a solitary man. His special world was ...
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In 1836, Alfred Jacob Miller had barely set up his second-floor studio at 26 Chartres Street in New Orleans, when he met William Drummond Stewart, ...
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Perceptive visitors to the Fur Traders & Rendezvous website will notice repeated subjects among the seven hundred or so images included in the online catalogue. In fact, ...
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In 1837, Alfred Jacob Miller became the first and only artist to document the annual gathering (1825-1840) of mountain men, fur traders, and Indians known ...
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Rarely in the history of American art is there a story to match that of the Baltimore painter, Alfred Jacob Miller. Having, serendipitously in 1837, ...
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Alfred Jacob Miller was acquainted with mountain men who endured the danger and discomfort of the Rocky Mountain West in search of beaver to supply ...
ReadAfter his trip to the Rocky Mountains in 1837, Alfred J. Miller never went west again. The 1838 rendezvous was the last such event that ...
ReadThe Rocky Mountain fur trade was based in the gathering of beaver pelts. Men from all over the country flooded into the wilds of the ...
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Alfred Jacob Miller’s contribution to American art is his representations of the interactions between Indians and whites.
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Mountain Men were young entrepreneurs looking for an adventure. They were independent, strong willed and valued freedom.
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Alfred Jacob Miller made his way west with the Scottish nobleman and avid adventurer, William Drummund Stewart. He became the first artist to depict the ...
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Alfred Jacob Miller’s trip to the West introduced him to a number of different tribal groups. He met the Pawnee, the Sioux, the Shoshone and the ...
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When Miller made his way west in 1837, he was aiming for the 13th annual rendezvous that brought together mountain men, fur traders and trappers.
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A band of white men came to the Rocky Mountains in the 1820s, not to settle the land, but to harvest its riches. They were capitalists, adventurers, or simply hired help. Within 20 years of their arrival, most of them had disappeared. The focus of their enterprise was the pelt of the North American beaver. The result was a presence in our imaginations that remains undiminished to this day. We call them Mountain Men.
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Artist Alfred Jacob Miller’s paintings serve as a link to interpret the story of this nation’s westward expansion. Historians use several categories of resources to ...
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In September 1806, the Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery returned to the frontier town of St. Louis from their epic journey across the Rocky ...
ReadWhen Alfred Jacob Miller agreed to accompany William Drummond Stewart on a trek to the Rocky Mountain West, it is likely he had no idea ...
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On April 4, 2015, Peter Hassrick spoke at a Miller exhibition reception at the Museum of Nebraska Art in Kearney, Nebraska. Mr. Hassrick is Director Emeritus and Senior ...
ReadAlfred Jacob Miller was a young man of twenty-seven when he attended the celebrated rendezvous of trappers and traders along a tributary of the Green River in the southwest corner of present-day Wyoming.
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