Remington Hits High Note

Frederic Remington did not live to see his Cutting Out Pony Herds (A Stampede) receive public notice. Collier’s Weekly published the oil on its front cover a century ago, on February 1, 1913, a little over three years after the master cowboy artist’s death. “The subject of this picture was an incident that was practiced by the Army of the West, with which Remington was personally familiar,” noted the late Harold McCracken, the world’s foremost authority on Remington. “When atta