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George Douglas Brewerton
GEORGE DOUGLAS BREWERTON (1820-1901) was a pioneering New Mexican sketch artist and painter, poet, journalist and historian.
He was born in Newport, Rhode Island in 1820, the son of Henry Brewerto...vizualizați mai multeGEORGE DOUGLAS BREWERTON (1820-1901) was a pioneering New Mexican sketch artist and painter, poet, journalist and historian.
He was born in Newport, Rhode Island in 1820, the son of Henry Brewerton, a career engineering officer in the United States Army who served as the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy and then as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Brewerton trained as a solider at West Point and crossed from California to New Mexico Territory in 1848 as part of the Army attachment accompanying Kit Carson. Brewerton’s Southwest oil paintings were some of the first landscapes of this territory exhibited in New York.
His poem and book titles include: Fitz Poodle at Newport: An Incident of the Season (1869); A Ride with Kit Carson through the Great American Desert and the Rocky Mountains (1853); The War in Kansas (1856); Wars of the Western Border; or, New Homes and a Strange People (1857); In the Buffalo Country (1862); Ida Lewis, the Heroine of Lime Rock (1869); and In the Buffalo Country (1870).
Brewerton died in Fordham, New York in 1901.vizualizați mai puține
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Overland with Kit Carson: A Narrative of the Old Spanish Trail in ‘48