| graphical account is unreliable as to fact, bombastic, slovenly in composition, and devoid of a just sense of values based on perspective, learning, and "fundamental brainwork." |
| Remington's own writingsall illustratedare the best sources for facts and understanding about him, but many of them in magazines antedating his deathincluding the autobiographical sketch in Collier's Weekly (New York, March 18, 1905), are available in only a few libraries. |
| The most knowledgeable person alive on Remington is probably Miss Helen L. Card, proprietor of the Latendorf Bookshop (containing more art than books), 714 Madison Avenue, New York. She does not publish enough, but her two pamphlets, privately printed at Woonsocket, Rhode Island, 1946, on A Collector's Remington (I. "Notes on Him; Books Illustrated by Him; and Books Which Gossip About Him." II. "The Story of His Bronzes, with a Complete Descriptive List") contain as much concentrated protein as wheat germ. |
| Frederic Sackrider Remington was born of parents strong of body and character in Canton, New York, October 4, 1861. His father owned and edited the local newspaper but left it to fight for the Union. Frederic, an only child, early learned to swim, fish, and play Indian in the woods. He hung around the Canton fire station in order to associate with the horses. He drew them and other forms of life on margins of school books and in albums. From high school he was sent to a military academy, against which he rebelled, at the same time filling a sketchbook with pictures of cavalrymen battling horseback Indians. At home on vacation, he improvised a studio in an uncle's barn. |
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