I knew the wild riders and the vacant land were about to vanish forever... and the more I considered the subject, the bigger the forever loomed. Without knowing how to do it, I began to record some facts around me, and the more I looked the more the panorama unfolded.

S. He wrote “the artist must know more than the camera. Remington wrote that the "heat was awful and the dust rose in clouds.

Cavalry. Frederic Sackrider Remington (October 4 1861 – December 26 1909) was an American painter illustrator sculptor and writer who specialized in depictions of the Old American West specifically concentrating on the last quarter of the 19th century American West and images of cowboys American Indians and the U.