Image and Imagination: Art of the American West
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After Charles Bird King, No-Way-Ke-Sug-Ga, hand colored lithograph, published in McKenney & Hall, Indian Tribes of North America, 1836-1844. Collection of the Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri - St. Louis |
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. Crowfoot (1821-1890), Blackfoot warrior and orator, 1890. |
Charles M. Russell, The Scout, oil on canvas, 1915. Courtesy the Woodcock Foundation for the Appreciation of the Arts |
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