These figures were sculpted in the hope that they will prompt young people to read about America's frontier and our fascinating Western Heritage. The frontier was as much an attitude as a place. As settlers pushed the wilderness further and . . . — — Map (db m288199) HM
The Indian and Eagle are highly regarded symbols of Americana. Prized by the Indian, eagle feathers guided arrows to their targets, and feathers served in civil, military, and religious displays. To capture these noble rulers of the heavens, . . . — — Map (db m288498) HM
She looks tired, worn out after being up most of the night, tending to a sick patient. She's walking home in deep snow on a very cold windy night with her medical bag and railroad lantern. In her younger years she joked about carrying a six gun, . . . — — Map (db m288395) HM
Late spring blizzards a virtual white-out. Calves born in the thick of it. Straight line winds smacking against wet newborn hide. A rancher struggles to recover a young calf, but sometimes its too late. Deliberate extinction of the buffalo on . . . — — Map (db m288397) HM
Jeremiah Johnson was a Mountain Man. Indians gave him the name Dapiek Absaroka, meaning Crow Killer. He carried on a one-man war with the Crow Indian Nation in retaliation for the death and scalping of his Flathead Indian wife, The Swan, and . . . — — Map (db m288398) HM
Soldier weather. Bone-jarring exposure to heat, rain, wind, dust, numbing cold, sleet, and snow. Day after day of mind-bending boredom, interspersed with moments of stark terror. These elements chipped away at an infantry soldier on foot or in the . . . — — Map (db m288399) HM
Scout, pathfinder, guide, mountain man, explorer, fur trader, blacksmith, and merchant; Jim Bridger was all of these. He is regarded as one of America's greatest frontiersmen, and overall, the Rocky Mountain West's most gifted scout. When it came . . . — — Map (db m288400) HM
A few hours after Sheriff Billy Cozen's wife had given birth to their first child, he apprehended two bank robbers. Gilpin County afforded no jail yet, so Billy took the suspects home and chained them against his wife's protest to the bed where . . . — — Map (db m288497) HM
