So far as available records indicate, this painting was first preaented publicly in 1918 in an exhibition, Indian Paintings, at the Hotel Gibson in Cincinnati. It appeared as part of the TSA annual traveling exhibition in St. Louis the following April and in Santa Fe in September. (El Palacio, 9/30/1919).

Thomas Gilcrease paid Sharp $2,500 (less discounts) for this large oil in 1945, the highest price the artist had ever received for a work of art by that date (Fenn, 2007, 290). An inscription on a study for the painting (#76a) says that it was made in September 1907 on the Crow Reservation.