1. The End of the Frontier and the Birth of Nostalgia: Art of the Old West after 1900
Mindy N. Besaw
Curator, Whitney Western Art Museum
Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming

2. Harper’s Weekly, January 24, 1891
Illustration and article, “The Sioux Outbreak in South Dakota,” by Frederic Remington
Thomas Moran, Chicago World’s Fair, 1894 (Brooklyn Museum)
Frederic Remington, What an Unbranded Cow Has Cost, 1895 (Yale University Art Gallery)

3. World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, IL, 1893
(right) Frederick Jackson Turner

4. “What has become of the Wild and Woolly West
“What has become of the Wild and Woolly West?” Chicago Daily Tribune, January 25, 1903

5. James Earle Fraser, End of the Trail, modeled ca. 1918-1923
Charles M. Russell, Waiting for a Chinook, ca. 1903

6. Frontier Heroes and the Romance of the West

7. Alexander Phimister Proctor, Indian Warrior, 1900-1902

8. Charles M. Russell, Indian Women Moving Camp, 1898
Hermon Atkins MacNeil, The Sun Vow, 1889
Charles M. Russell, Watching the Enemy, ca

9. Chief Iron Tail, ca. 1902

10. Frederic Remington, Broncho Buster, 1895
Frederic Remington in his New Rochelle Studio, 1905

11. Frederic Remington, A Dash for the Timber, 1889 (Amon Carter Museum)
Frederic Remington, Fall of the Cowboy, 1895 (Amon Carter Museum)

12. Owen Wister, The Virginian (1902)

13. Charles M. Russell, Bronco Buster, 1919
Solon Borglum, One in a Thousand, 1906
Charles M. Russell, The Bucker and the Buckeroo,

14. Charles M. Russell, Self Portrait, 1900
Roping a Grizzly, 1903
Passing of the frontier and the end of an era --

15. Above the Sea of Round, Shiny Backs the Thin Loops Swirled and Shot into Volumes of Dust, 1904-1905
N.C. Wyeth, The Wild Spectacular Race for Dinner,

16. W.H.D. Koerner, Madonna of the Prairie, 1921

17. Frederic Remington, Radisson and Groseilliers, 1905

18. Charles Schreyvogel, The Last Drop, 1903
Frederic Remington, The Wounded Bunkie, 1896

19. Charles Schreyvogel, The Last Drop, 1903
Schreyvogel on his roof in Hoboken, 1903

20. Charles Schreyvogel, The Summit Springs Rescue-1869, 1908

21. Buffalo Bill and the Wild West Show

22. The Strobridge Lithograph Company, Col. W. F. Cody “Buffalo Bill,” ca
Cabinet cards, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show

23. Rosa Bonheur, Col. William F. Cody, 1889
Courier Lithograph Company, Art Perpetuates Fame: Rosa Bonheur Painting Buffalo Bill, Paris, 1889

24. Irving R. Bacon, The Conquest of the Prairie, 1908

25. Frederic Remington, Buffalo Bill in the Limelight, ca. 1899

26. Remington, the Cowboy, and the Shaping of an Artistic Vision

27. Frederic Remington

28. John Henry Twachtman, Waterfall in Yellowstone, ca. 1895
Frederic Remington

29. Thomas Moran, The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, 1872 (housed at the Smithsonian American Art Museum)
Thomas Moran, Zoroaster Peak (Grand Canyon, Arizona), 1918

30. Frederic Remington, Stormy Morning in the Bad Lands, 1906
add Ghosts of the Past, ca. 1908
Frederic Remington, Untitled (Fall Landscape), ca

31. Frederic Remington, The War Bridle, 1909

32. Frederic Remington, The War Bridle, 1909
Frederic Remington, Prospecting for Cattle Range, 1889

33. Wildlife and the Sporting Man

34. Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir, Glacier Point, 1903
Roosevelt, horseback, c. 1905

35. Carl Rungius, The Mountaineers, 1912; Mule Deer in the Badlands, 1914; Silver Tip Grizzly Bear, ca. 1923

36. A. Phimister Proctor, Alaska Brown Bear, ca. 1900
Albert Bierstadt, Buffalo Head, ca. 1879
A. Phimister Proctor, Stalking Panther,

37. Charles M. Russell, Buffalo Family, n.d.
Charles M. Russell, Lunch Hour, n.d.

38. N.C. Wyeth, Hunters With Bear, ca. 1911

39. Mourning the Past: Symbolic Depictions of Native Americans
Charles Cary Rumsey, Dying Indian, ca. 1904
James Earl Fraser, End of the Trail, ca

40. George Catlin, Crow Chief, ca. 1850
John Mix Stanley, Last of Their Race, 1853
Charles M. Russell, Bringing Home the Spoils, 1909

41. Fraser, Buffalo Head Nickel, 1913
James Earl Fraser, End of the Trail, ca

42. Henry Farny, Days of Long Ago, 1903
Joseph Henry Sharp, Dividing the Chief’s Property, ca. 1905

43. Edward Curtis, Upshaw-Apsaroke, 1905
Edward Curtis, Bear Bull-Blackfoot, 1926

44. Curtis from exhibition here

45. Charles M. Russell, Bringing Home the Spoils, 1909

46. Charles M. Russell, Where Great Herds Come to Drink, 1901
Charles M. Russell, His Heart Sleeps, 1911

47. A.D.M. Cooper, Viewing the Curios, 1909
A.D.M. Cooper, In the Studio, 1902

48. A.D.M. Cooper, Relics of the Past, before 1910