Catlin's West of the 1830s. Roll over the legend to see the journeys.    In 1832, Catlin explored the 2000-mile course that Lewis and Clark had taken almost thirty years earlier up the Missouri River into Indian lands. This six-month trip was the most exciting and productive of his career, yielding 170 paintings. From the deck of the steamboat Yellowstone, he recorded the first panoramic views of the vast and varied Great Plains. Portraits drawn from eighteen tribes included the Pawnee, Omaha, and Ponca in the south and the Mandan, Cheyenne, Crow, Assiniboine, and Blackfoot to the north. Catlin concluded "the North American Indian in his native state is an honest, hospitable, faithful, brave, warlike, cruel, revengeful, relentless,—yet honourable, contemplative and religious being." The small landscapes seen here trace Catlin's journey up the Missouri.