In the Details: “A Dash for the Timber”
Frederic Remington’s A Dash for the Timber is regarded as his first masterpiece. Completed in 1889, at the age of 28, the young Remington had already collected a wealth of western experiences and artifacts that enabled him to create the action-packed painting. To learn more about the painting and the artist, I spoke with Ron Tyler, Director of the … Read more
Happy 1st Birthday
On March 1, 2008, Route 287 debuted on westernhorseman.com. One year, 40 entries, 8,519 words-worth of brilliant observations, 70 photographs, and countless trail and road miles later, Route 287 keeps blogging-on. To celebrate, I thought I’d share the exchange of e-mails between me and Western Horseman Editor A.J. Mangum that brought the magazine’s first-ever weblog … Read more
