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The art of the old West: from the collection of the Gilcrease Institute
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Authors' preface
The wilderness: New World reports and the first frontier
Indians of the Plains: a narrative of Indian life in the trans-Mississippi West
The Missouri River, waterway west: selections from frontier travelogues
Trappers and traders: the mountain men in a new wilderness
Overland trails to Oregon & [and] California: pioneers in a roadless country
Freighting & western commerce: western enterprise before the railroad
Hunting and sporting amusements [scenes]: observations of the buffalo and other wild animals of the West
From the Hudson to the high Sierras: from sea to shining sea
Troopers west
Western characters
The cowboy
Romance & realism
Listing of artists and works.
Illustrations: Detail of an elk hide [warriors on horses] / unknown Indian artist -- William Thomas Gilcrease / Charles Banks Wilson -- Lewis, Clark, and Sacajawea / Henry Lion after a C.M. Russell sketch -- George Rogers Clark on his way to Kaskaskia / Howard Pyle -- Lewis and Clark at Black Eagle Falls / O.C. Seltzer -- Multnomah Falls / Albert Bierstadt -- Niagara Falls / Frederic Church -- Lewis and Clark at the Great Falls of the Missouri / O.C. Seltzer -- Buffalo Hunt under white wolf skins / George Catlin -- Horse thief / Frederic Remington -- Pen and ink drawings / George Catlin -- Indian camp at dawn / Jules Tavernier -- Dances of the North American Indians / George Catlin -- Animal dance / Woodrow Crumbo -- Sioux bear dance / George Catlin -- Crow warrior on horseback / George Catlin -- Assiniboine chief going to and returning from Washington / after George Catlin -- Catching wild horses / George Catlin -- Game of chance / John Mix Stanley -- Breaking a pony / Henry F. Farny -- The sorcerer / Henry F. Farny -- Her heart is on the ground / C.M. Russell -- Missouri roustabout at the tiller of a mackinaw boat / William Cary -- View of the Missouri: Tower Rock / after Karl Bodmer -- "Jim Butler, mountain man" / William Cary -- Northern boundary survey under Major Twining / William Cary -- Black Squirrel / William Cary -- Beaver hut on the Missouri / Carl Bodmer -- L'voyageur / O.C. Seltzer -- Half breed / O.C. Seltzer -- Hudson's Bay trapper / O.C. Seltzer -- Lost trapper / A.J. [Alfred Jacob] Miller -- Trappers on the Big Sandy / A.J. Miller -- Manuel Lisa watching the construction of Fort Lisa / O.C. Seltzer -- Thomas Fitzpatrick / O.C. Seltzer -- Frontier trader / O.C. Seltzer -- Jim Bridger / C.M. [Charles Marion] Russell -- Mountain man / Albert Bierstadt -- On the Flathead / C.M. Russell -- The robe traders / C.M. Russell -- Fort William on the Laramie / A.J. Miller -- Interior view of Fort William / A.J. Miller -- Trappers' rendezvous / A.J. Miller -- Pierre, Rocky Mountain trapper / A.J. Miller -- William Drummond Stewart and Antoine Clement / A.J. Miller --Mormon haymakers / William Cary -- Pennsylvania teamster / William Ranney -- Pack mule / Will James -- Red River Cart / William Cary -- Mirage on the prairie, or, Traders' caravan / A.J. Miller -- Immigrant / O.C. Seltzer -- Arrieros / F. Lehnert -- California crossing / W.H. Jackson -- Untitled sketch of a pack horse / Peter Rindisbacher -- Jerkline outfit / O.C. Seltzer -- The teamster / O.C. Seltzer -- Going it alone / William Cary -- Mule skinner / O.C. Seltzer -- Attack on the Jerky -- Coming and going of the pony express / Frederic Remington -- Buffalo crossing the Missouri / William Cary -- Carrying the U.S. mail / O.C. Seltzer -- Freighting from Fort Benton / O.C. Seltzer -- Untitled study of a horse / W.R. Leigh -- Why the mail was late / O.E. [Oscar E.] Berninghaus -- The stage coach / Edward Borein -- Slaughtered for the hide / Paul Frenzeny, Jules Tavernier -- Herd on the move / William Hays -- Buffalo [sculpture] / artist unknown -- Buffalo family / O.C. Seltzer -- Ornamented buffalo robe / George Catlin -- The buffalo hunt / C.M. Russell -- Episode of a buffalo hunt / Frederic Remington -- Hungry moon / Frederic Remington -- Hide hunters / O.C. Seltzer -- Buffalo hunt / A.J. Miller -- Buffalo hunt in winter / William Cary -- Buffalo hunt on snowshoes / George Catlin -- Where tracks spell meat / C.M. Russell -- Buffalo and prairie wolf / O.C. Seltzer -- Untitled study of a buffalo / W.R. [William R.] Leigh -- Untitled study [prairie with sagebrush] / W.R. Leigh -- Meat's not meat till it's in the pan / C.M. Russell -- Better than bacon / C.M. Russell -- Prairie wolf / O.C. Seltzer -- A close call / W.R. Leigh -- Study of a grizzly / W.R. Leigh -- Roping a wild grizzly / James Walker -- Grizzlies killing a white buffalo / George Catlin -- Studies of the grey wolf / W.R. Leigh -- Pronghorn head study / W.R. Leigh -- Iowa Gulch, Colorado / Thomas Moran -- Sierra Nevada morning / Albert Bierstadt -- Across the continent: westward the course of empire takes its way / F.F. Palmer -- Snow sheds on the Central Pacific [Chinese pictured] / Joseph Becker -- A hold up [buffalo herd crossing railroad tracks] / Robert Lindneux -- Glory of the canyon / Thomas Moran -- Lower Falls of the Yellowstone / Thomas Moran -- American railroad scene: snow bound --
From the Book
The wilderness
Indians of the plains
The Missouri River, waterway west
Trappers and traders
Overland trails to Oregon & California
Freighting & western commerce
Hunting & sporting amusements
From the Hudson to the high Sierras
Troopers west
Western characters
The cowboy
Romance & realism.
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9780883940457
9780394466699
089009957
03807261811250
9780394466699
089009957
03807261811250
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