Men with the bark on do not say things in their lighter moods that go
for much; but when these men were behind a sage-brush handling a Sharps, or
skimming along the tailing buffaloes on a strong pony, what grunts were got out
of them had meaning!
The artist Frederic Remington who so ably rendered what he saw into visual
form also was quite handy with the written word. He lived in the midst of much
of what was and this first hand observation fills his prose pieces with a verisimilitude
that many others simply must infer via research.
This tale in the campaign against Sitting Bull is filled with such on-point
observations.
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