| Summary: | "Frederic Remington drew about 3,000 pictures between 1885 and 1909. He started out as an illustrator for Magazine Pieces. Mostly these were feature articles describing this new wester country of the wagon trains, the fur business or the Indian struggle. Thus, unwittingly, Remington became a pictorial historian. This flood of western scenes today lies sleeping int he back rooms of libraries and musty attics up and down the land...This book attempts to portray moments from that free and fateful time. Some are dramatic and many are commonplace, but all are faithful and depict situations exactly as they were. Remington's wide choice of western subjects and his accuracy add up to our finest picture of what we call 'The Old West'. When you look at these drawings, try, for a little while, to forget this shiny other world we live in and be a part of Remington's passing scene, if only as a spectator peering through the brush."--Foreword.
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