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Indians Firing the Prairie

Alternate Title: Burning a Refuge

Date: ca. 1896

Catalogue Number: 02050

Illustration: Miles, Gen. Nelson A. Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, 1896, p. 245, halftone.

Illustration Inscription: ll: Frederic Remington-


Provenance: (Findlay Galleries, Kansas City, Missouri); (M. Knoedler & Co., New York, New York); Paul Steinbrecher, Chicago

Bibliographies

McCracken, Harold. Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1947.
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Card, Helen L. Scrapbooks of Remington illustrations, compiled c. 1945. Vols. 1-9. Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming.
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Samuels, Peggy and Harold. Remington: The Complete Prints. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1990.
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Remington, Frederic. Rotogravure. Akron, OH: The Werner Co., c. 1898, undated portfolio of 14 b/w photogravures, 16 x 23" previously published in Personal Recollections of General Nelson A. Miles}.
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Remington, Frederic. Remington's Frontier Sketches. Intro. by George S. Rowe. Chicago: The Werner Co., 1898. Contains 15 Remington plates, b/w, 9-1/2 x 12-1/2", unpaginated, previously published in Personal Recollections of Nelson A. Miles}.
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W. D. Harvey, Racine, Wisconsin, 1907, b/w and sepia prints of previously published images from Personal Recollections of Gen. Nelson A. Miles.
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Jussim, Estelle. Frederic Remington, the Camera & the Old West. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1983.
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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.

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