According to Rudolf G. Wunderlich, “This bronze was copyrighted October 1, 1895. There were a total of approximately 375 casts made of this subject from the original mold. Cast No. 177 is an excellent example, and is genuine in every respect, having examined this bronze several times in the last seven years.”

PROVENANCE
James Graham & Sons, New York, NY
H. R. Milner, Canada
Robert Mewburn, Edmonton, Alberta
Mongerson Wunderlich Galleries, Chicago, IL, 1984
Ralph Applegate, AZ, 1984
Mongerson Wunderlich Galleries, Chicago, IL, 1996
Lucian and Beverly Galloway, Bryn Mawr, PA, 1996

LITERATURE
H. McCracken, Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West (New York, NY: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1947), plate 41, example illustrated
Harold McCracken, The Frederic Remington Book (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1966), page 255, example illustrated
Peter Hassrick, Frederic Remington: Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture in the Amon Carter Museum and the Sid W. Richardson Foundation Collections (New York, NY: 1973), pages 180-81, example illustrated
M.E. Shapiro, Cast and Recast: The Sculpture of Frederic Remington (Washington, D.C.: The Smithsonian Institution Press, 1981), pages 63-69, example illustrated
Michael Edward Shapiro and Peter H. Hassrick, Frederic Remington, The Masterworks (Cody, WY: The Saint Louis Art Museum in conjunction with the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, 1988), pages 172-5, 233, back cover, example illustrated
J. Ballinger, Frederic Remington (New York, NY: 1989), p. 74, example illustrated
Michael D. Greenbaum, Icons of the West, Frederic Remington’s Sculpture (Ogdensburg, NY: Frederic Remington Art Museum, 1996), front cover, pages 29, 47, 51-64, example illustrated

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