Image and Imagination: Art of the American West
Collage of Artwork
Documenting Westward Expansion Link Revealing an Unseen Landscape Portraying the Native American


Curtis Winter Hunters

Edward Curtis, Winter Hunters, photograph from The North American Indian, published 1907-1930.
Collection of the Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri - St. Louis
It is my land, my home, my father's land, to which I now ask to be allowed to return. I want to spend my last days there, and be buried among those mountains. If this could be I might die in peace, feeling that my people, placed in their native homes, would increase in numbers, rather than diminish as at present, and that our name would not become extinct.

Geronimo (1829 - 1909), To President Grant from the reservation at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, after surrender, 1877.

Berninghaus Winter Move Oil on Canvas

Oscar Berninghaus, Winter Move, oil on canvas, 1928.
Courtesy the Woodcock Foundation for the Appreciation of the Arts

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