2013 Coeur d’Alene Art Auction / Lot 294
294
Richard Greeves (1935 – 2022)
Kickapoos, May 22, 1804
bronze
37 inches high
stamped in base: Corps of Discovery 1804-1806 | Kickapoos, May 22nd 1804 | R. V. Greeves | 2003 20/30
William Clark noted in his journal that May 22, 1804 had been a cloudy day as the expedition stopped that evening at a Kickapoo village. “Those Indians told me several days ago that they would Come on & hunt and by the time I got to their Camp they would have Some Provisions for us, we Camped in a Bend & under & at the Mo: of a Small creek, Soon after we came too the Indians arrived with 4 Deer as a Present, for which we gave them two qts. of whiskey.”