Remington Catalogue
An Episode in the Opening up of a Cattle Country
Alternate Title: An Incident in the Opening of a Cattle Country
Date: 1887
Medium: oil on panel, b/w
Catalogue Number: 00178
Credit Line: Autry National Center, Los Angeles
Dimensions: 17-3/8 x 24-7/8″ (44.13 x 63.18 cm)
Illustration: Century Magazing (February 1888), p. 497, wood engraving.
Inscription: lr: Remington./’87
Illustration Inscription: lr: Remington./’87
Provenance: Melville Herman, New York, descended through family; (Rosenstock Arts,
Denver, Colorado); present owner
Exhibitions
Exposition Universelle Internationale de 1889 A Paris. Paris,
France: 1889.
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Bibliographies
McCracken, Harold. Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1947.
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McCracken, Harold. The Frederic Remington Book: A Pictorial
History of the West. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co.,
Inc., 1966.
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Samuels, Peggy and Harold. Frederic Remington: A Biography.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1982.
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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.
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Roosevelt, Theodore. Ranch Life and the Hunting-Trail. New
York: The Century Co., 1888.
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Paris Universal Exposition, 1889, Official Catalogue of the
United States Exhibit. Paris, France: Charles Noblet et Fils, 1889.
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New York Herald, March 10, 1889.
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Ballinger, James K. Frederic Remington. New York: Harry N.
Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1989.
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Clede, Bill. “Guns that Build America.” The Gun Illustrated,
no. 1 (1963).
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Jussim, Estelle. Frederic Remington, the Camera & the Old West.
Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1983.
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Mabie, Hamilton Wright. Our Country in Peace and in War.
Philadelphia: International Publishing Co., 1898.
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Mabie, Hamilton Wright and others. Our Own Country Its History
and Achievements and the Story of Our Great Men and Women.
Chicago: Monarch Book Co., 1895.
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Mabie, Hamilton W. The Memorial Story of America Comprising the
Important Events, Episodes, and Incidents Which Make Up the
Record of Four Hundred Years from 1492 to 1892. Philadelphia:
John C. Winston & Co., 1893.
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Dippie, Brian W. The Frederic Remington Art Museum Collection Frederic Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York 2001
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Hassrick, Peter H. Remington, Russell and the Language of Western Art. Washington: Trust for Museum Exhibitions, 2000
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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.