1895 Pony Tracks 1ed Frederic Remington INDIANS Americana Cowboy Illustrated

1895 Pony Tracks 1^ed Frederic Remington INDIANS Americana Cowboy Illustrated

Remington was an American artist and writer who focused on the American West, featuring Indians, cattlemen, and the U.S. Cavalry. “Pony Tracks” is a collection of fifteen sketches of army and sporting life, mainly in the western United States and northern Mexico written and illustrated by Frederic Remington during his time with the US Cavalry. His sketches include a Sioux outbreak in South Dakota, a rodeo at Los Ojos, policing the Yellowstone, the colonel of the First Cycle Infantry, Christmas in a Sibley tepee, bear-chasing in the Rocky Mountains, and more!

“The triumvirate of Theodore Roosevelt, Owen Wister and Frederic Remington was foremost” in creating the mythic figure of the cowboy, and establishing the West as a metaphor for America (Literary History).

This 1895 first edition is illustrated by Frederic Remington with a frontispiece and 69 full-page black & white plates.

Item number: #26980

Price: $499

REMINGTON, Frederic

Pony tracks

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1895. First edition.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • viii, [2], 269, [3]
  • 70 illustrations
• References: Graff 3458; Howes R 207; BAL 16489; Literary History of the American West, 515;
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover; secure
  • Orange cloth
• Size: ~9in X 6.25in (23cm x 16cm)

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