Frederic
Remington was born in New York in 1861.
After attending Yale University he became
a cowboy and began drawing pictures of the Wild West. He submitted
some of these to Harper's Monthly
but they were only published after they were re-drawn. Remington's
work improved and he was eventually employed as a staff artist.
Remington's illustrations in magazines like Harper's
Monthly and Scribner's Magazine
made him into a household name. In 1888 Theodore
Roosevelt asked
him to illustrate Ranch Life and the Hunting
Trail. He also provided the art work for Longfellow's The
Song of Hiawatha (1891), Pony
Tracks (1895) and The Way of an
Indian (1906).
For
several years Remington also worked as a journalist and provided reports
and pictures of major events such as the Indian
Wars and
the Spanish-American War. Frederic Remington died in 1909.
Fred Remington, Smoke Signals (1905)
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