Monday, September 11, 2023

Buffalo Runners. Artist: Frederic Remington

 


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  1. seems background missing

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    1. It's the plains.
      Nothing is the background.

      It's hard to grasp if you've always lived around hills and mountains unless you've been there.

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  2. injuns liked to stampede herds of bison off of cliffs, take the hides and leave the rest to rot

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    1. not so, they even roasted the bones for the marrow. they left absolutely nothing to waste. the offal was eaten first while the meat was being smoked or dried and prepared for longer term storage. for them to waste any food, was to go hungry.
      even in good years, starvation in the late winters was not uncommon among many tribes.
      scout

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    2. it is so, I've seen a the pile of bones that is a buffalo jump.

      the safest way to hunt them

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    3. Actually, once the Europeans began trading with the tribes closes to water access, the demise of the Bison was all but guaranteed. It also created some serious warfare between the tribes - the Blackfoot and Blood were almost wiped completely off the Prairie by the Cree who always had the latest in guns. And many of the other tribes did not appreciate the Cree's penchant for waste when the times were good. The Blackfoot often used a place called Smashed In Head Buffalo Jump for guiding the herds into their demise. I visited there when I was quite young and then later after I had an appreciation for the topography.

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  3. I get lost in the art of Frederic Remington, Charlie Russell, Albert Bierstadt...

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    1. Visit The Cowboy Hall of Farm in OKC.

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    2. Damn autocorrect...FAME

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  4. Yes to the Cowboy Hall of Fame. Then motor on over to the Gilcrease museum in Tulsa and Woolaroc outside of Bartlesville.

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    1. https://www.woolaroc.org/ I spent an entire day there. Historically captivating.

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  5. Bull fighting for dinner.

    My lotto bucket list is that I could make quite a nice living until I died rendering bronzes of all the fantastic 2D art Remington and Russell never turned into 3D.

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