William Drummond Stewart hired Antoine, a “half-breed,” to accompany him on his adventures into the fur trade wilderness. Antoine was loyal and by Stewart’s side at all times. Artist Alfred Jacob Miller used Antoine in several of his depictions of the Drummond expedition and the American West.
“The subject of the sketch is a half-breed (that is, his father was a Canadian, his mother an Indian) and one of the noblest specimiens of a Western hunter; in the outward journey he killed for us about 120 Buffalo; his temper however, when aroused, was uncontrollable.” –A.J. Miller, extracted from The West of Alfred Jacob Miller (1837)
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