Crooked Trails

Frederic Remington

ISBN 10: 0517159317 / ISBN 13: 9780517159316

Published by Random House Value Publishing December 12, 1988, New York, 1988

About this Item

Very Good+ Hardcover. Very Good Dust Jacket. NOT a library copy. 1988 Remington's stories are as rough and ready as his drawings. The wild west started in what is now New York! Here among his classic 'western tales' tales of Apache and Texas is "Joshua Goodenough's letter' A narrative of Rogers Rangers and Fort Ticonderoga action. Plenty of 'wild west' action too in here. This is a handsome reprint from the late 70s or earlier 80s. Light wear, good tight. b/w illus. See our Three Geese in Flight Book Scans.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Crooked Trails
• Publisher: Random House Value Publishing December 12, 1988, New York
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0517159317
• ISBN 13: 9780517159316
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • North American Folklore and Supernatural
  • American Revolution/French & Indian War

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Synopsis

Frederic Sackrider Remington (1861-1909) 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. S. Cavalry. His style was naturalistic, sometimes impressionistic, and usually veered away from the ethnographic realism of earlier Western artists. His focus was firmly on the people and animals of the West, with landscape usually of secondary importance. His collaboration with Owen Wister on The Evolution of the Cowpuncher, published by Harper’s Monthly in September 1893, was the first statement of the mythical cowboy in American literature, spawning the entire genre of Western fiction, films, and theater that followed. He was one of the first American artists to illustrate the true gait of the horse in motion. The galloping horse became Remington’s signature subject, copied and interpreted by many Western artists who followed him, adopting the correct anatomical motion.