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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 Already they had withdrawn well west of the Mississippi, and already they wore U. S. store blankets, not buffalo robes; but they still retained most of the shapes of their freedom and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...
...masterful horsemen at six. They swarmed with vermin. They kept droves of fierce, useless dogs who got at the meat supplies, bit legs. Each brave took as many wives as he could buy and support; there were no love matches. They were extremely lascivious. By their manner toward him Tixier concluded that sodomy was common. The only Osage who showed kindness to his wife offered her to Tixier for the night for $10. Tixier pretended not to understand...
...hunt, along the "woodless prairies" beyond the Arkansas River, their venison often spoiled for lack of fuel to cook it. Indian police whipped the noisy and the neck-craners into discipline when game was near. They were skillful shots; one bullet or one arrow per bison was usually enough. Tixier predicted the extinction of the bison; the Osage killed them at random, usually left 150 Ib. of excellent meat on each carcass...