Word: tixier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIXIER'S TRAVELS ON THE OSAGE PRAIRIES -Edifed by John Francis McDermo// -University of Oklahoma Press...
...Victor Tixier was a young French doctor and amateur artist who wanted to see the country he had read of in Chateaubriand and Fenimore Cooper. Starting on a rather conventional Grand Tour, he quit it to spend the summer of 1840 among the Osage Indians: in Nion-Chou, the greatest of their villages; in their summer hunt for bison; in their skirmishes with the subtle, horse-stealing Pawnees. His book, published in France in 1844, is now published in English for the first time, with his few, expert Indian drawings and excellent notes. It has caught, between the doctor...
...Osage. Already they had withdrawn well west of the Mississippi, and already they wore U. S. store blankets, not buffalo robes; but they still retained most of the shapes of their freedom and integrity. Their government was a neat interlocking of democracy and absolutism; their discipline in conference moved Tixier to admiration; their use of property was virtually without problems. Their wealth was in horses. The poor were the guests of the rich at their own desire; upon request, any hunter yielded up to half of any animal he had killed, including the choice...