Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-12-09

In the spring of 'S6 he climbed up the the stairs to the art editor of ''Harper's Weekly with couple of sketches on the Indians and horses in the war of Geronimo, the Apache chief. He had just returned from that country at the end of his ranch life. A Yale College man, in 1879 he started out to make his fortune ranching in the far West. An expert horSeman, a Shrewd and keen, observer from the start, he soon rose from 8 cowboy into a cattleman. The distinction on the plains is this: The owner of the ranch is the cattleman, the employe, whatever his age may be. the cowboy. Thus. grizzled old frontiers, men are often the ''boyS," the wealthy youngster from tho East the man" But Remington's ranch did not prosper The Indian troubles and hard luck pressed down upon him, and in 'SS he gave 1t up as failure and came on East. Here, down on his luck, he determined to make trial of his artistic propensities, fostered only by a bare | months study at the Yale Ant School l years before. His perfect understand ing of the horse and his close observa- | tion during seven years of ranchinS now stood him in good stead.
 1 In these trial sketches handed to Har- per's there was great lack of tech | nique. They bore no com mparison with " | Yet there was in them a wide knowl- edge of the West, a reproduction of | horse action, photograpically wrong, | but one that could be felt as correct. Harpers' not only accepted tho sketches but sent him back to Arizona for | others.
 His first sketches oe Geronimo's cam paign were printed late in the spring. | Those he did on his special mission l there appeared throughout the sum- mer with series of articles entitled,
 ''Our Soldiers in the Southwest Dur ing 'S7 and '9S appeared drawings of Mexican horses and men, frontier stud ies, Kansas cattle sketches and pie lures of events in the East, such as racing and football scenes, and incl dents on man-of-war. But all this time it was as drawer of the horse
 that he stood out most brightly.
 In the early part of 1SSS he illustra- ted for the ''Century' a series of papers
 written by Theodore Roosevelt on
 ''Ranch Life in the Far West" Here he was in his element and his remem- | brance of his years in the saddle came forth in brilliantly graphic drawings of horse action. Laterln the year he made drawings forRooscvelt' s three Century,
 articles, "Frontior Tyres.' Sheriff s
 Work on Ranch, ani The Ranch mans Rifle on Graz and Prairie" His knowledge of technique was constantly | increasing, and what be knew of horse
 anatomy was brought into still better
 use. Within the last few months he
 has illustrated for the Century" and written as well four papers
 on wonderings among the Indians
 and horses of the plains. Last
 winter, armed with letters from our
 War Departments and accompanied
 by detailed Mexican officer of engi-
 neers, he visited the Mexican army in
 their camps and skotched the types.
 Theses ketches ''uarper's Magazine"
 has just published. Besides these moro
 Important pieces of work, he has fur
 nished countless sketches to various
 publications and painted many charac-
 teristic- scenes. But as a painter he
 makes no pretentions. He is purely
 an illustrator. Net he works away conscientiously with his brush, looking
 toward the future in that