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  Stanely travels to American West in search of American Indians and frontier themes on an expansive scale.
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  John Mix Stanely witnesses the hunting skills of Piegan indians while visiting Fort Benton, Montana.
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  The Buffalo Hunt painted by John Mix Stanley.
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  Indian Encampment was painted by Albert Bierstadt.
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  Albert Bierstadty's second trip west delayed by insurrections among indigenous tribes over the United States government's displacement of Native Americans from ancestral lands.
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  Fire at Smithsonian destroys all but seven of STanely's 150 potraits of Indian life.
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  The Indian and the Lily painted by George de Forest Brush.