Home » Catalogs » Remington Catalogue » Pony Tracks in the Buffalo Trails

Remington Catalogue

Frederic Remington Online Catalog
Remington Catalogue banner image

Pony Tracks in the Buffalo Trails

Date: 1904

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: 02732

Credit Line: Private Collection, Dallas, Texas

Dimensions: 30 1/8 x 51 1/8" (76.5 x 129.9 cm)

Illustration: Collier's Weekly (October 8, 1904), p. 16-17, color halftone.

Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington-

Illustration Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington.


Provenance: The artist; (Annesly, Hilton); [?]; (Macbeth Galleries, New York, New York, until 1937); Bartlett Arkell, Canajoharie, New York, 1937; gift to Canajoharie Library and Art Gallery, Canajoharie, New York, 1937-1954; (Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, New York, 1954); Amon G. Carter, Fort Worth, Texas, 1954; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas; (Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico); Vern Milligan, Castle Rock, Colorado; (Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2011); present owner

Exhibitions

How the West Was Made: Fact and Fiction in the Works of Remington and Russell. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, May 14 - August 7, 1994.
View All >>

Inaugural Exhibition. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1961.
View All >>

Remington and Russell exhibition. College Station, Texas: Memorial Student Center, Texas A & M University, November 12 - December 10, 1962.
View All >>

Remington and Russell exhibition. Midland, Texas: Midland Public Library, April 1 - 30, 1963.
View All >>

Remington and Russell. Corpus Christi, Texas: Art Museum of South Texas, September 5 - October 2, 1963.
View All >>

The Opening of the West. Birmingham, Alabama: Birmingham Museum of Art, October 27 - December 1, 1963.
View All >>

Remington and Russell exhibition. Staunton, Virginia: Mary Baldwin College, 1964.
View All >>

Remington and Russell exhibition. Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah, November 1 - 30, 1964; traveling exhibit: Portland, Stanford.
View All >>

Remington and Russell exhibition. Stanford, California: Stanford Art Gallery and Museum, March 29 - April 18, 1965; traveling exhibit: Salt Lake City, Portland.
View All >>

Winston-Salem, North Carolina: Reynolda House, Piedmont University Center, July 1 - 31, 1966.
View All >>

Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West. New York, New York: The New-York Historical Society, November 1, 1947 - January 1, 1948.
View All >>

Frederic Remington. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, January 1 - April 1, 1973.
View All >>

Bibliographies

McCracken, Harold. Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1947.
View All >>

McCracken, Harold. The Frederic Remington Book: A Pictorial History of the West. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1966.
View All >>

Card, Helen L. "Frederic Remington, 1861-1909: Artist Historian of the Old West." Scrapbooks of Remington illustrations, compiled c. 1944. Vol. 1-5. The Metropolitan Musem of Art, New York, New York.
View All >>

Amon Carter Museum. Inaugural Exhibition. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1961.
View All >>

Hassrick, Peter. Frederic Remington: Painting, Drawings and Sculpture in the Amon Carter and Sid W. Richardson Foundation Collections. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1973.
View All >>

Hassrick, Peter. Frederic Remington. An essay and catalogue to accompany a retrospective exhibition of the work of Frederic Remington. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1973.
View All >>

Amon Carter Museum of Western Art. Catalogue of the Collection 1972. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1973.
View All >>

Philip Morris. Remington. London: Leo Burnett Limited, 1981. European film.
View All >>

Smith, Philip R. "Indians in Army Service." Army Digest, vol. 23, no. 8 (August 1968).
View All >>

Grant, Bruce. Famous American Trails. Chicago: Rand McNally & Co., 1971.
View All >>

Stevens, Lt. Col. Phillip H. Search Out the Land: A History of American Military Scouts. Chicago: Rand McNally & Co., 1969.
View All >>

Department of Army, Executive Corridor, Pentagon, Washington D.C., enlargement, 1972.
View All >>

Schomaekers, Gunter. A Pictorial History of the Old West of the U.S.. Dorheim-Hessen, West Germany: Ahnert-Verlag, 1972.
View All >>

"The West Began at Plymouth Rock, Says Carter Museum." West Texas Livestock Weekly, vol. 22, no. 48 (January 1, 1971).
View All >>

Baker, Donna. Artists in Our World, Frederic Remington. Chicago, Illinois: Children's Press, 1977.
View All >>

Iowa State University and Winrock International. The Legacy of the Stockman. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University and Winrock International, January, 1985.
View All >>

Houghton Mifflin Co. Houghton Mifflin Reading Series. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986.
View All >>

Bouc, Ken. "Indian Wars." Fort Robinson Illustrated, vol. 64, no. 1 (January/February 1986).
View All >>

Remington ledger book of paintings, 1903-1909. No. FRAM 1918.266. Frederic Remington Art Museum archives, Ogdensburg, New York.
View All >>

Ballinger, James K. Frederic Remington. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1989.
View All >>

Samuels, Peggy and Harold. Remington: The Complete Prints. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1990.
View All >>

Collier Catalogue of prints, some called "artist's proofs," of varying sizes in b/w or color on pebbled art paper or board of Remington paintings illustrated in Collier's Weekly - see Collier print file for listing and individual painting record for print info.
View All >>

Remington, Frederic. Remington Portfolio of Drawings. New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1904, portfolio of three full-color 5 x 7-1/2" prints on soft mat: The Pioneers}, The Santa Fe Trade}, The Gathering of the Trappers} with The Creek Indian} illus. on cover.
View All >>

Remington, Frederic. Six Remington Paintings in Colors. New York: P.F. Collier & Son, 1906, portfolio, full-color prints 17-1/2 x 23-1/2": Gathering of the Trappers}, Argument with the Town Marshal}, The Bell Mare}, The Emigrants}, Pony Tracks in the Buffalo Trail}, The Buffalo Runners}.
View All >>

Identical to 1906 portfolio of same title except Trailing Texas Cattle replaces Gathering of the Trappers}.
View All >>

National Museum of American Art. Inventory of American Paintings. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution. On-line computer database in progress; BBHC copy for Remington's paintings dates October 10, 1984.
View All >>

Jussim, Estelle. Frederic Remington, the Camera & the Old West. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1983.
View All >>

Wegner, Hart. "Frederic Remington and John Ford: Dynamic and Static Composition Elements of 'Fort Apache.'" Explorations in National Cinema, 1977 Film Studies Annual: Part One, p. 26-36.
View All >>

Gerald Peters Gallery. Remington the Years of Critical Acclaim. Singapore: Asiaprint Ltd. 1998
View All >>

Baigell, Matthew. The Western Art of Frederic Remington. New York, New York: Ballantine Books, 1976.
View All >>

The information presented here is based on the Catalogue Raisonné edited by Peter Hassrick in 2016 and was accurate to the best of our knowledge at that time.

Hours

May 1 — Sept. 15 8 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Sept. 16 — Oct. 31 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Nov. 1 — Nov. 30 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Dec. 1 — Feb. 28 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.Thursday – Sunday
Mar. 1 — Apr. 30 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Rates

Adults

$23

Seniors

$22

Student

With Valid ID

$21

With Valid ID

Kids 6 - 17

$16

Kids < 5

Free

Active US Military

Free

Park County Wyoming Youth

Generous support from the Frère family makes this program possible.

Free

17 years and under plus one accompanying adult
Program Details »

Generous support from the Frère family makes this program possible.

Historic Photo of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Performers

Our Mission

Connecting People to the American West

© 2025 Buffalo Bill Center of the West. All rights reserved.
Smithsonian Affiliations AAM Privacy Policy