Through his writing, illustrations, paintings, and sculptures, Frederic Remington (1861–1909) evoked the Old West. His art reflects life on the frontier so vividly that many people assume that he was a Westerner—an impression that his publisher, Harper’s Weekly, happily embellished. But Remington was an Easterner, a born-and-bred New Yorker.
Remington’s love for capturing the West began when he traveled to Montana Territory in summer 1881, an experience that ignited his successful career and lifelong passion for sketching cowboys, cavalrymen, and Native Americans.
