End Of The Trail A Man His Statue And A Coin

Download or read book End of the Trail a Man, His Statue and a Coin written by W. E. Mueller and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Earle Fraser-born the same year as Custer's Last Stand, 1876-spent his childhood on the frontier. He was in daily contact with American Indians and admired them. When he heard trappers predict the "Indian will be pushed into the Pacific Ocean," he was troubled and formed an image in his mind. While working at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, Fraser was inspired to sculpt a small model of his idea. How this image-End of the Trail-became an icon in American Western Art is the subject of W. E. Mueller's book. Mueller also explores the sculptor's Indian head-buffalo nickel, and provides highlights of Fraser's life-America's most famous unknown artist