Pony Tracks by Frerick Remington, 70 Illustrations , 1951, HC, DJ,

Description: Thank you for looking at our listing. A purchase is supporting Friends of Spanish Peaks Library District! These books are all donated from different sources. This book is in very good condition, and an ex-library book, library stamps and markings, see photos for details. 70 wonderful Remington illustrations . If you find several items, message me and I’ll be happy to combine shipping. Frederic Remington stands preeminently among our artists of the Old West. For more than fifty years his paintings, drawings and sculpture have been the most popular record that we have of that whole rugged and colorful cavalcade of the American scene-the unshaven buckskin-clad frontiers-men, scouts, trappers and traders; the Indian-fighting army of the frontier; the covered wagon caravans of pioneer homeseekers; the chaparejoed cowboys on their bucking broncos; the great herds of cattle on the open range; and the old-time Indians. They are all perpetuated most vividly in Frederic Remington's pictures. As an artist he needs no introduction. But there is another, less known but equally meritorious phase of this documentarian's accom-plishments—as a writer. The large amount of factual articles and short stories which appeared in the best magazines of the day under Remington's name, and the several books that he had pub-lished, were only overshadowed by his greatness as an artist. One of his novels, JOHN ERMINE OF THE YELLOW-STONE, was dramatized and produced as a play on Broad-way. He also faced extraordinary competition in this field. An unusually skilled and prolific school of Western writers were then in their prime such men as Owen Wister, Bret Harte, Alfred Henry Lewis, Joaquin Miller, Emerson Hough, and a good many others were enjoying high popularity and turning out the sort of things that have since become classics on the West. If it had not been for these important factors, or if Remington had devoted a little more time and effort to writing, he might easily have ascended to recognition as one of the great literary exponents of the Old West. But today, as his stature increases as a documentary artist, so does his importance as a writer….. …..saloon in Kansas City. Even after he came to New York and settled down to the career of an artist, he spent part of almost every year in some wild section of the West. Few men have brought to their profession as artist and writer a background of more intimate personal experience, knowledge and sympathetic understanding of the subject which they made the thesis of their life's work. In the early days of Remington's providing pictures of the passing phases of the West, for publication in Harper's Weekly, he accompanied these with journalistic accounts of the particular incidents they portrayed. They were never just pictures. Very quickly he began writing complete ar-ticles, accompanied by series of pictures on the subject. For this writing and pictorial reporting, many assignments were given him, which involved special trips. One of the most important of these was to cover the last big Indian uprising of the Sioux under Sitting Bull in the Dakotas. Some of the best of these articles Remington selected for his first book, PONY TRACKS. The original issues of this interesting volume have long been highly prized by collectors of Western Americana, as well as lay readers of authentic western literature. Fortunately now this book has been made available to the many who are sure to enjoy it. June, 1951

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Location: Walsenburg, Colorado

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