Frederic Remington was as big as all outdoors. He stood over six feet and weighed, in his late years, as much as 300 pounds. He rode like a Comanche and drank like an unreconstructed reservation Indian—and he recorded the facts of Wild Western life with rare flair.
By the turn of the century he bulked big as an illustrator (and as a Hearstling pictorial reporter), sometimes earning a sensational $25,000 a year. Thirty-six years after his death, the Hearstwhile artist is now recognized for his deadeye accuracy of detail as almost a major historian. Last year A Dash for Timber was sold...
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