In 1851 Frank Blackwell Mayer, a talented young artist from
Baltimore, traveled to Minnesota Territory to attend the signing of
the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux between the Dakota Indians and the
United States government. "He went," notes Bertha Heilbron in the
introduction, "not to participate in the negotiations, but to
observe Indian life at first hand and to find subjects for his
brush and pencil... With a sure stroke he pictured the scenes and
the inhabitants--red and white--of the frontier; with a fluent pen
he described all that he saw through the sensitive eye of the
artist."
Mayer's diary is a travel narrative, an eyewitness account of a
critical treaty signing, and a candid personal view of the
development of the artist in mid-nineteenth century America. His
words and drawings offer a lively and important resource for
historians of art and the frontier, as well as readers of regional
history.
This edition includes an additional section of Mayer's diary that
was discovered after the book was first published in 1932. Bertha
Heilbron's helpful introductions and annotation provide important
historical information for both parts oif this valuable document.
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