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Remington's
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Sketches

PUBLISHERS :
THE WERNER COMPANY
CHICAGO
AKRON, O.
NEW YORK
BY
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Frederic Remington-

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COPYRIGHTED, 1898,
BY
THE WERNER COMPANY
Frontier Sketches
THE
THE WERNER COMPANY
PRINTERS
&
AKRONO
BINDERS
02-23-28P.A
gift
£. B. at
1-21-26.
CONTENTS
TWENTY-FIVE TO ONE
MEETING BETWEEN THE
PURSUING GERONIMO
LINES
"God Almighty made me an Indian and not an Agency Indian.”
INDIAN VILLAGE ROUTED
INDIAN WINTER ENCAMPMENT ON STAKED PLAINS
MOUNTING INFANTRY ON CAPTURED PONIES
SIOUX WARRIORS
THE LAME DEER FIGHT
HUNTING HOSTILE CAMP
SURRENDER OF CHIEF JOSEPH
"From where the sun now stands I fight no more against the White Man."
FIGHTING OVER THE CAPTURED HERD
SOLDIERS OPENING THEIR OWN VEINS FOR WANT OF WATER
ATTACKING THE INDIAN CHIEF, "CRAZY HORSE
PURSUING THE INDIANS
INDIANS FIRING THE PRAIRIES

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INTRODUCTION
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RADITION and history alike are silent on the origin of the American Indian. The subject is
one that has engaged the attention of the student to no substantial purpose.
The secret,
whatever it may be, is locked in the voiceless years of long ago, and there is no promise
of a solution. But the hope is never quite dispelled that an answer to the riddle may
yet be found; that, as the discovery of the Rosetta Stone unraveled the mysteries hidden
in the hieroglyphic writings of ancient Egypt; or as the genius of Sir Henry Rawlinson robbed the
cliff at Behistun of its secrets and made plain the inscriptions upon the monuments and clay tablets
stored beneath the ruins of ancient Nineveh; so some investigator may yet be rewarded with an
inspiration which shall disclose to him the lost key with which to free the enigma presented by the
American Indian.
Whatever may be the merits of the case, and however strongly we may advocate the survival of the
fittest, there is a romantic sadness in the fate of the red man that excites our sympathy; traits in his
character that win admiration; a poetic justice in his cause that appeals to us. Instinctively we find our-
selves wishing that his fate had been less hard and inexorable.
When we remember that four hundred years ago the Indian was in undisputed possession of this
continent; that from ocean to ocean it was one vast game preserve kept for his lordly pleasure, wherein
he roamed at will; when we recall how he has been displaced, slowly at first, then more rapidly, and finally
fairly swept from the dominion of his fore-fathers by the irresistible force of advancing civilization, we cannot
wonder that he at length made a last desperate stand, resolved to preserve from the devouring greed of the
spoiler some portion of his inheritance. The theatre selected for the final scene in the tragedy, by necessity
rather than choice, was one worthy the occasion. It embraced the great plains of the boundless West, from
the cactus-grown prairies of Texas to the sage brush of the Red River country, including the mountain
fastnesses of the Rockies. Here in the two decades following the Civil War it was fought out with the
result the same as always. The struggle was long and desperate. No quarter was given. Awful acts of
inhuman cruelty were repeated again and again. Prodigies of valor were performed. Enormous amounts
of treasure were expended, while there is no measure of the terrible suffering entailed.
And so the Indian, to all intents and purposes, has passed from the stage. Not one in a hundred of
those living to-day has ever seen him, or ever can. He came from out the darkness of the unlit past,
and has disappeared like mist before the morning sun.
Fortunately, but no thanks to him, he has left his likeness with us in a hundred different forms.
The most striking of all, the truest to life, are found in the vivid pictures of that heaven-born artist,
Frederick Remington, presented in this book.
His are no fancy sketches. They deal with subjects which he has studied close at hand, in the
wigwam, on the plains, in the wild arroyos.
When the turbulent soul of the last wild Indian shall have passed to the Great Spirit, Remington's
admirable pictures will abide, preserving for all time his unique likeness in a setting true to nature and
worthy of the subject.
GEO. S. ROWE.

TWENTY-FIVE TO ONE


Frederic Nemington
UNIV
OF
MICH
PURSUING GERONIMO

Frederic Remington

UNIV
MEETING BETWEEN THE LINES
"God Almighty made me an Indian and not an Agency Indian.”

Frederie Resing
UNIV
OF
MICH
INDIAN VILLAGE ROUTED

THE VERNER COMPANY
Steleric Remington
UNIV
OF
MICH
INDIAN WINTER ENCAMPMENT ON STAKED PLAINS

Frederic Resing you
OF
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MIC
MOUNTING INFANTRY ON CAPTURED PONIES

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SIOUX WARRIORS

Fredens Remington
UNIV
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THE LAME DEER FIGHT

Freder Remimuron
UNIV.
OF
MICH
HUNTING HOSTILE CAMP

Frederic Remington
UNIV
OF
MICH
SURRENDER OF CHIEF JOSEPH
"From where the sun now stands I fight no more against the White Man."

Frederic Remington
UNIV
OF
MICH
FIGHTING OVER THE CAPTURED HERD

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SOLDIERS OPENING THEIR OWN VEINS FOR WANT OF WATER

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Frederic Remington
UNIV
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ATTACKING, THE INDIAN CHIEF, "CRAZY HORSE »

Remington
UNIV
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PURSUING THE INDIANS

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Frederic Remington
UNIV
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MICH
INDIANS FIRING THE PRAIRIES

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