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Standing Off Indians
Frederic Remington American
Not on view
Early in his career, Remington had the good fortune to provide illustrations for a series of articles by Theodore Roosevelt for Century Magazine: "Ranch Life in the Far West" (1888), later collected in the book Ranch Life and the Hunting-Trail. Like Remington, Roosevelt lived in the American West in the 1880s, and his adventures there served as fodder for his frontier mythology. Standing Off Indians, reproduced as a wood engraving in the May 1888 issue, accompanied the tale of a brief encounter between Roosevelt and a group of Plains Indians. He has dismounted and aimed his rifle, the stand-off negotiated and ended through a sequence of coded actions. Many of Remington’s depictions of the West contain allusions to confrontation in contested territory, whether obvious or implicit.