The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1910-04-28
WHEN FREDERICK REM
INGTON WAS A TEND.
ERFooT IN KANSAS
How tho Big Artist Won Over a Pho
nser Community by Thrashing
. Bully Who Was Tormenting
an Understood Newcomer.
From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

from the 81 Louis POSt-DtSpatCh.
One morning many years ago the
people of Winslow, Ariz., then a wild
place In the desert road. now a town
Of come Importance. saw a cloud Of
dust rising on the horizon. and pres
emily a hard riding little band of Unit
ed States soldiers stopped at the vii
lage long enough to water their horses
n feed them from bags tied at their
noses. Then, after eating a bite as they
stood by the sides OF the animals,
which had been neither tied nor unsad-
died. they mounted and disappeared
across the ~sun-baked land to the south
west.
Accompanying the soldiers, tired,
dirty. covered with the desert sand and
burned by the desert sum-, was a big
man in civilian clothes, who rode to
the forefront with the officer in charge
and seemed eager as any of the fighters
to face h privations ahead. The lit
cavalry troop was out in quest of
Apaches. who a broken from their
reservation and were numbering, burn
Ing n p~illaging-on one of those flu
rt0us raLapages which made the name
OF the Apaches a symbol of dread along
fhe border. The sun-browned civilian
was Frederick Remington, the artist
who died the other day, and he was in
quest of material for future use.
II was such experiences as this which
laid the foundation for Remington's
later success and made him famous as
the most capable portrayer Of the life
OF the Old West. He knew at first
hand the country and the people-and
the animals-he depicted. and many are
the stirring tales told of his adventures
in search Of this information. He lived
the life Of the cowboy. the plainsman.
the hunter and h Indian fighter, and
when he put his pen to paper he drew
his pictures from q life he knew as
well as any living man-and better than
any artist.
Upon Remington's first trip west,
after ending his studies at Yale, he
landed at Peabody. Kan. Bob" Camp,
Of Milwaukee, Wis, a chum of Rem
ington's at Yale. had gone to Peabody
before Remington and 1t was his pres
ence that drew the artist.
Camp owned a ranch in Butler coun-
ty. south of Peabody. and it was there
Remington made his first studies Of
cowboy life, while Peabody was the
scene of an extremely interesting Incl
dent-Remington's breaking in az q
'tenderfoot."
Nobody at all familiar with the life
Of h early west, either by reading or
experience, will seek to minimize the
Importance Of a ''tenderfoot's" first APP
,pearance among the rough and ready
men who formerly dominated 1.-THE
plains" On his actions at that time
depend to q great extent his standing
In the future. This was particularly
E when the newcomer was a col
lege chap" as was Remington. and for
tina reason locally accounted an
easy mark until he provided himself
with other credentials.
Remington had been at Camps ranch
about three days. according to the rec
objection of old timers at Peabody,
Whenshe rode UP from Camps to that
town AZ he turned onto the principal
aOtroet 8h0 attention was attracted to q
crowd and he Immediately rode forward
70 ooo$WhAt a going on.
What he saw aroused his lighting
Mood at once. In the center OF the
uttDo group were two men. ~ small,