Pioneer art

“If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.” ~ Abraham Lincoln Besides the brilliant sense of accomplishment, healthy lifestyle of physical activity and the sweetness of $avings, there is something morally and spiritually strengthening when involving oneself in old fashioned labor. It is the blessed business that keeps you out of everyone else's business. "A life of full and constant employment is the only safe and happy one. If we suffer the mind and…

Vienna Jaques: Woman of Faith

Just Married Next Summer’s Ice Croaking Frogs And Crickets Manzanar Internment Camp, California Meanwhile Back At The Ranch Campfire (Blue Harmonica) The Homestead Hilda Hilda Hilda Hilda Wee…

“I didn’t choose art as a career, it chose me” is the answer often given by Tom Browning whenever asked why he decided to become an artist. Browning began drawing horses, wildlife and Indians at age seven, and after five decades of painting and studying the work of Charlie Russell, James Reynolds and Haddon Sundblom,...Read More

Girl on Oregon Trail by Benjamin Wu

Since 1963, Trailside Galleries has been regarded as one of the pre-eminent dealers in American representational art, specializing in a rich and varied collection of works by the leading western, wildlife, figurative, impressionist, and landscape artists in the country. The artist roster includes members of the Cowboy Artists of America, National Academy of Design, Oil Painters of America, the Prix De West, Society of Animal Artists, National Sculpture Society and Masters of the American…

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'Quiet Hours' by Heide Presse. Quest for the West, Eiteljorg Museum

Prairie Fever was also known as “Prairie Madness.” It affected settlers emigrating to the Great Plains following the Homestead Act of 1862. It affected men but women were more prone to the affliction caused by isolation and the loneliness on the endless, windblown prairies.