Here is this week's omnibus of #westernwriter inspirations posted each day at twitter. If you are on twitter, you can follow me @rdscheer. [Click to enlarge]
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| Galveston Directory cover, 1888 |
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| "Hunting the Pronghorn Antelope in California," Frederic Remington, 1889 |
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| Crow under guard, Crow Agency, Montana, 1887 |
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| Mills and mines, Lead City, South Dakota, 1889 |
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| Goddess of Liberty prior to installation on top of Texas capitol rotunda, 1888 |
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| Bryce Cabin, Utah, c1881 |
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| Sidewheel steamship Alaskan at Northern Pacific Railway dock, Tacoma, Washington, c1880 |
Photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
Coming up: James Stewart, Audie Murphy,
Night Passage (1957)
I wonder about Remington's drawing on hunting the antelope. That seems a little far fetched, a horse and rider getting that close to an antelope (it also seems the antelope is a little larger than life.
ReplyDeleteSage, I had the same thought. Antelope are seriously fast animals and not easy to get close to outside of a zoo.
DeleteThe Crow under guard is very intersting. It's so funny in a way to think of them posing for pictures while in the middle of things.
ReplyDeleteCharles, as prisoners, I doubt that they had much say in the matter.
DeleteThe log cabin had a long life and were durable. They were still in use in the 1930's.
ReplyDeleteOscar, I do believe you can have a log cabin built to your specifications today.
DeleteLove Remington. I wish our art museum would do a show with his work.
ReplyDeleteI often come across old black-and-white pictures of old Bombay, way, way before my time, yet I can't help feeling a certain affinity with the people and period they belonged to. This is vintage stuff no matter what part of the world.
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