Print reproduces a painting by A.F. Tait in a lithograph by Louis Maurer for Currier & Ives; it depicts trappers pursuing in combat Indigenous persons on horseback. In the foreground, one pair of riders; a trapper, on saddled roan mount, wearing hat and animal-skin clothing, aiming a pistol with his right hand; an Indigenous person, bareback on black horse, leaning to left side of mount, looking back, holding a spear in his right hand; in the mid-ground, more riders in thel tall grass; in the background, largely cloudy sky with a single bird in flight; a little less than half the print shows the sky
Description:
Title from printed caption below image. and Below image: Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1856 by N. Currier, in the clerk's office of the District Court of the Southern Distt. of N.Y.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Currier & Ives
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.) and Great Plains
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Violence against, Trappers, and Frontier and pioneer life
Print reproduces a 1905 painting by Remington called 'The smoke signal' that depicts three Crow Native American men with three horses, one roan, one black, and one white with a red right hand print (as a brand) on its left buttock and a bird's feather tied into its tail; two of the Crow men are dismounted, kneeling on the hill-side signalling with smoke
Publisher:
Reproduced by the Lakeside Press, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, Chicago by permission of the copyright owner, the Remington Art Memorial
Subject (Topic):
Crow Indians, Indians of North America, Great Plains, and West (U.S.)
Print depicts two white men pursuing an Indigenous man; all on horseback. In the foreground, one rider has tossed a lasso toward the Indigenous man
Description:
Title from printed caption. and Below image: Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1856 by Currier & Ives, in the clerk's office of the district court of the Southern District of New York.
Print reproduces Charles Deas's 1844 oil painting, "Long Jakes, the Rocky Mountain Man." Print depicts a bearded male trapper on horseback; horse, black with white blaze on forehead, facing right, head turned down and toward viewer; trapper's body facing right, half-turned to center, with head turned back to left; wearing a red tunic, buskskins, moccasins, spurs, and hat; carrying long gun in his right hand, reins in his left; mountains and sky in background
Alternative Title:
Long Jakes, the Rocky Mountain Man
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Date from metadata for another instance (black and white) of this print held by the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas.
Publisher:
published by M. Knoedler, successor to Goupil & Co. and printed at J.H. Bufford's
