$10 · The Artist Was A Young Man Peter Rindisbacher by Alvin M. Josephy, Jr. 1970

1970 hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition. Pick-up is in Saanich, close to the Monkey Tree and ICBC plaza off McKenzie Ave. Cross-posted. Thanks for looking! The life story of Peter Rindisbacher, a significant figure in the pictorial history of the early 19th century American West. As a boy of 15, he immigrated with his Swiss family to the ill-fated Selkirk colony on the Red River of Canada. Imbued with a prodigious sense for art, young Peter recorded the untold adventures and misadventures of the life and characters on the northern frontier. Before his premature death at the age of 28, his deft pencil and brush, with the touch of exquisite draftsmanship and technical precision, had rendered everything from Assiniboin buffalo hunts to Saint Louis society portraits. His pictures of Indians and settlers in Canada, on the upper Mississippi, in the lead-mining area of what is today Galena, Illinois, and in Saint Louis have remained historical, ethnological and artistic gems. The Artist was a Young Man is more than the biography of an important Western artist, it is a saga of the times as related through the artist's eyes, as well as being a timely account of his life on the frontier.