The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-08-28
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Before ending I wish to say a word
on something which | believe should
especa ally interest all men who live
N the open country. and especially
all men who during the past thirty
years have lived and worked on ranch
Is or nave done their lie work III
he wilder parts OF our and. on the
gIea. plains or among the mountains.
The phase Of our national lie III
which the stocknan, the mining pros
aector the frontier farmer and their
associates were he chief characters,
was not only a very important; but a
so very picturesque phase. Ofte.
such a phase passes without any grea
artist arising o commemorate il. The
0 .d-time woodsman, for instance,
lived in the eastern forests through
which the va ers ran eastward 10 the
Atlantic and westward to the Missis
sippi. passed away without any paint
er OF sculptor arising who possessed
at once both The keenness of vision
10 see what vital and picturesque
ii cure the backwoOdsman was, and
the genius adequately 10 present tha-
figure. The artists who saw the pic
turesqueness OF the backToOdsman
lacked the genius adequately 20 com
memora,e it, while the artists OF real
ability unfortunately had their eyes
turned towards Europe, and lacked
the robust originality-which the nov
eUst Cooper showed-to see where
their chance lay TO do great work.
But in our generation, Tor our good
fortune d great artist arose who was
capable OF seeing and OF recording
the Infinite pictugesqueness OF the
life Of the plains and the Rockies. OF
course | speak of Frederick Remlng-
ton. lie was one OF those Americans
who By his achievements distinctly
deserved well OF America. He worked
with pencil. vi n brush. with chisel;
he was both a painter and sculptor.
His pictures and his few bronzes are
equally good. When my own regi-
nent. a typical.y western regiment re-
cruited mainly from the men OF the
greac plains and the mountains, was
disbanded at Montauk Point, the off
GERS and enlisted men Joined in giving
me Remington's bronze Bronco Bus
ter: a gift which thought peculiarly
appropriate coming from such BODY
of men In Remington's pictures all
the most vivid and characteristic fea-
lures OF the western pioneer life
which is just closing We're set forth,
and he has commemorated forever
the men Of the plains and the noun
| rains as they actually were. line
cowboy is his fayorite type, but the
mining prospector the frontier farm
/ er. the man who guides ox-wagon or
mule team. the soldier, the Indian
all appear. Now | wish every much
that these men themselves would in
turn provide a monument for the
great artist the sum of whose ac'iyl-
I ties represents such feature OF Am
erican achievement, and, above all,
represents the commemoration or
some of the mos interesting figures
} that have ever appeared on the stage
of American life. A statue should
be raised to Remington by some real
" first.class artist. Here az Chey-'
enne in this gathering many hundreds
of the men have come together who
were themselves typical leaders in'
and representatives, Of, the very lIe
which Remington so portrayed that il
will always live. | hope that these
men will join together, arrange the
appointment of a committee, and start
TO raise funds for the erection of
such a statue