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About Seth Eastman
Seth Eastman was an artist and West Point graduate who served in the U.S. Army, first as a mapmaker and illustrator. He had two tours at Fort Snelling, Minnesota Territory; during the second, extended tour he was commanding officer of the fort. During these years, he painted many studies of Native American life. He was notable for the quality of his hundreds of illustrations for Henry Rowe Schoolcraft's six-volume study on the history of Indian tribes of the United States, commissioned by the U.S. Congress.
Everything about Seth Eastman →- Occupation
- illustrator, painter, cartographer, military personnel
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- January 24, 1808
- Died
- August 31, 1875