Campfire Stories with George Catlin: An Encounter of Two Cultures was produced by the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Click here to visit Campfire Stories with George Catlin: An Encounter of Two Cultures.    In the 1830s, George Catlin (1796 - 1872) packed his paintbrushes and trekked through remote Indian country in the Great Plains. Committed to documenting traditional Native culture, he visited about 50 tribes and painted in excess of 325 portraits and 200 scenes of American Indian life. Catlin's prolific works, both his art and his writings, illustrate Indian cultures on the precipice of radical change-change that would come with U.S. expansion into tribal territories.    Campfire Stories with George Catlin an Encounter with Two Cultures presents and interprets hundreds of Catlin's artworks from the Smithsonian American Art Museum's permanent collection. Text resources include Catlin's primary source documents-a handwritten sketchbook and his 1841 publication Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Conditions of North American Indians.    Campfire Stories will help visitors learn about Native American individuals, lifeways, and homelands using Catlin's art and writings as departure points. Contemporary American Indians, historians, artists, and other experts narrate the multimedia stories. These present-day perspectives provide context for understanding Catlin, his art, and his nineteenth-century encounters.