Saturday, February 4, 2012

Western writer inspiration, no. 23

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]

Galveston Directory cover, 1888
"Hunting the Pronghorn Antelope in California," Frederic Remington, 1889
Crow under guard, Crow Agency, Montana, 1887
Mills and mines, Lead City, South Dakota, 1889
Goddess of Liberty prior to installation on top of Texas capitol rotunda, 1888
Bryce Cabin, Utah, c1881
Sidewheel steamship Alaskan at Northern Pacific Railway dock, Tacoma, Washington, c1880

Photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

Coming up: James Stewart, Audie Murphy, Night Passage (1957)

8 comments:

  1. 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.

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    1. Sage, I had the same thought. Antelope are seriously fast animals and not easy to get close to outside of a zoo.

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  2. The 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.

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    1. Charles, as prisoners, I doubt that they had much say in the matter.

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  3. The log cabin had a long life and were durable. They were still in use in the 1930's.

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    1. Oscar, I do believe you can have a log cabin built to your specifications today.

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  4. Love Remington. I wish our art museum would do a show with his work.

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  5. I 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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