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Signed copy of Frederic Remington and The North Country: An Informal Biography of the Artist of the Old West
By: Atwood Manley and Margaret Manley Mangum
Foreword by: Peter H. Hassock (Director, Buffalo Bill Historical Center)
During his lifetime Frederic Sackrider Remington lived simultaneously in three worlds: the western frontier he immortalized in oil and bronze; cosmopolitan New York City, where he worked–and played–hard; and the lesser known North Country — the world of river and woods from the Northern Adirondacks to the Canadian border–where he was born and bred and which remained a primary influence throughout his life.
For the first time, two North Country scholars reveal how that environment nurtured this complex man during his forty-eight hard-lived years. This biography finally communicates how this great “Western” artist, from the village of Canton, New York, near the St. Lawrence River, was sustained by his roots, by his continual returns there with his wife, Eva, and by his lifelong and closest friends, the men and women of the North Country who launched him on his career and who were his trusted confidants, remaining loyal to his memory long after his death.
As North Country natives, the authors have had resources unavailable to others; they have been able to explain references that have hitherto gone unnoticed and misunderstood, and most of all, they have had access–for the first time ever–to Eva Caten Remington’s diaries.
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