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


Remington Bronco Buster Bronze

Frederic Remington, Bronco Buster, bronze, 1895.
Courtesy the Woodcock Foundation for the Appreciation of the Arts


I knew the wild riders and vacant lands were about to vanish forever and the more I considered the subject, the bigger forever loomed. . . I began to record some facts around me.

Frederic Remington (1861 - 1909)

 Darley The Buffalo Hunt Print

Print after F.O.C Darley, The Buffalo Hunt, c. 1850.
Collection of the Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri-St. Louis

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