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of the western United States. He also painted numerous portraits and genre paintings in and around
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American paintings & historical prints from the
Middendorf collection
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Cooke, Gretchen (2002). "On the Trail of Alfred Jacob Miller".
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Alfred Jacob Miller manuscript and sketches, (undated and 1837
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189:. That same year, along with representatives of the
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