Omaha daily bee., 1898-05-29

hanging with his costumes and
curiosities. That year Colonel Chivington's
commans Of 200 soldiers surprised a large
band Of Cheyennes and Arapahoes at Sand
creek. and killed 15l OF them. with a loss
of fifty killed and wounded. Captain How
land was mustered out at the close OF that
year.
Becomes an Artist.
BY that time he had achieved quite a
reputation as an artist and he decided 10
adopt 1t as a profession. With this in view
he started on his first visit to Paris. II
was a long and slow trip across the plains.
He Joined the famous Hunt train, which
was attacked by Indians. This train was
in charge Of United States Marshal Hunt,
aftervard governor Of Colorado, who was
conveying prisoners to Michigan. A mum
Der OF others had Joined the party for
greater security. among them several
women. The Indians besieged the train for
nine days. The ammunition OF the whites
was almost gone, so the small cannon which
the outfit carried was loaded with trace
chains with wet gunny sack pieces for wad-
ding. During the night the temperature
reached twenty degrees below zero and the
gunny cloth in the cannon had frozen solid.
II was almost certain that when IL was
fred the cannon would explode and kill the
gunner. 1t was n Job no one wanted. When
the savages made their charge at daybreak
the thoughts of the women and children
stirred Captain Rowland and he touched of
the cannon, expecting to be blown to pieces.
Ii held together. but the slaughter OF In
dams and horses was so great that they
gave UP the attack.
Returning from France in 1867, through
the endorsement Of such men as Generals
William S. Harvey. w T. Sherman. Terry
and Thomas Murphy, superintendent of In
dian affairs. Captain Rowland was appointed
secretary Of the Indian peace commission TO
the Northern Sioux. His knowledge OF their
language and manners. beside personal &C
quaintanee, made him a most valuable man.
1t rs related that while Generals Harvey,
Sanborn and others of the commission were
stopping at a military post in the Indian
country a party Of forty lodges Of Sioux
surprised a couple Of herders who were at
tending seventy head of government horses
and mules grazing on the North Platte.
Fourteen well mounted bucks charged upon
them, and the leader. with a wicked looking
spear, sought to kill the herders. but they
managed to get away and alarmed the sold
iers at the fort. Captain Wells and a com
pany of the Second cavalry started in pur-
suit. accompanied by Captain Rowland, clad
in his old buckskin suit, which had seen
so much service. They followed the trail
for many miles over the Black Hills, every
step Of the way being ~perilous. Finding
themselves so closely pursued the Indians
separated into several parties, first spearing
to death twenty of the mules. The soldiers
got onto the main trail and followed it until
dark, camping in a ravine that night with
out fire. At daylight they took up the trail
again and followed it TO the Bad Lands,
which they did not dare enter. Upon their
return they narrowly escaped being am
pushed by 800 Indians
After this Captain Rowland spent many
years sketching and painting in Utah, New
Mexico and California. Early in the '7os
he made a p~eriIous journey of exploration
in a canoe for 1000 miles down the Rio
Grande, something no white man had ever
attempted. He had many narrow escape:
in deep. dark canons through which tbs
river rushed and in avoiding falls anC
rapids. 1t was a most exciting trip and wa!
accomplished in the xernarkabler time o
twenty days.
In 1852 Captain Rowland made another
trip to Paris to complete his studies. Upor
his return he settled in this city, where
! he still resides with his family. For TIVE
, terms he was president of the Colorado
l Pioneer association.
some of His Paintings.
: One OF -the best known of Captain How
lands paintings is that entitled "A From
tier Inquest" II represents seven wis.,
looking buffalo gathered in a broken semi
: circle around the body of a dead Indian
which lies stiff and stark mid the prairi
= cactus, with a hole in the breast frou
t which has run a crimson stream. There i
9 a look of inquiry in the eyes of the bi
d bisons, and one cannot help wondering, a
d they appear to. as TO why and how ii hap
e pened. Studies for this were made in 1856
Z but It was not until 1880 that it was painte
for Henry r. Wolcott, a brother of Senate
WoIcott. In 1881 Rowland repainted ii 70
Sir Morton Frewen, VIII was hunting i
this country at the time. Frewen afterwar
: sold it to Sir Randolph Churchill.
Another is The Buffalo Hunt the mai
objects being a wounded and dying bufal
u about to fall TO the ground, and q typIcs
frontiersman on a horse in the act OF hrin
the final shot. The 1utfaIo is large an
shaggy, and full of fight, but his wound
h are too severe, and, despite his desire I
v give battle, his knees bend and his hea
almost touches the ground. In the middle
ground is an Indian, who rides an ordinar
z horse, without saddle, bride or blanke
a bareheaded and only armed with bow an
e arrow, while the superiority Of the whit
d man is shown by his spirited charger, I'm
d saddle, sombrero and rife. In the back
ground are shown the herd of fleeing bufal
d and a winding stream.
a THE Rear Guard represents a big bu
n buffalo on the crest of a ridge, with hea
half lowered and eyes watching for DANCE
The herd is passing over the ridge. There
V a background of peaks and valleys and ii
q reproduction Of the tints and shadows p
h culiar to Colorado is perfect. The buffal
stands out as II alive.
A Maternal Solicitude" shows a buffalo co
II and calf surrounded by four miserable, bl
wicked, coyotes, who have separated the
= from the herd, but are too cowardIy 10 mai
a direct attack. The solicitude of the moth'
= is indicated by her defensive attitude, viii
the calf cuddles up to her in fright. Or
? Of the coyotes seeks TO draw the attention
the mother, while one is seen sneaking l
: behind to seize the calf. while the othei
2 are in various natural attitudes.
z Looking for Trouble pictures three II
> dams of the uneivilized sort decked out
u ALI the glory OF war paint and gaudy dres
racing Dell-mell on their Oonies down