![]() He was an active child, large and strong for his age, who loved to hunt, swim, ride, and go camping. Remington was the only child of the marriage, and received constant attention and approval. After the war, he moved his family to Bloomington, Illinois for a brief time and was appointed editor of the Bloomington Republican, but the family returned to Canton in 1867. On the Warner side of his family, Frederic Remington was related to General George Washington, America's first president.Ĭolonel Remington was away at war during most of the first four years of his son's life. ![]() He was related, as well, to three famous mountain men-Jedediah S. Bascom.įrederic Remington was also a cousin to Eliphalet Remington, founder of the Remington Arms Company which is considered to be America's oldest gunmaker. Frederic Remington was related by family bloodlines to Indian portrait artist George Catlin and cowboy sculptor Earl W. One of Remington's great grandfathers, Samuel Bascom, was a saddle maker by trade, and the Remingtons were fine horsemen. He was a newspaper editor and postmaster, and the family was active in local politics and staunchly Republican. Remington's father was a colonel in the Civil War whose family arrived in America from England in 1637. His maternal family of the Bascom line was of French Basque ancestry, coming to America in the early 1600s and founding Windsor, Connecticut. His paternal family owned hardware stores and emigrated from Alsace-Lorraine in the early 18th century. Remington was born in Canton, New York in 1861 to Seth Pierrepont Remington (1830–1880) and Clarissa "Clara" Bascom Sackrider (1836-1912). įrederic Sackrider Remington (Octo– December 26, 1909) was an American painter, illustrator, sculptor, and writer who specialized in depictions of the Old American West, specifically concentrating on the last quarter of the 19th-century American West and images of cowboys, American Indians, and the U. Scouts Patrolling the Big Timber of the North Canadian Oklahomaįine Art Prints | Greeting Cards | iPhone Cases | Tote Bags | Clothing | Lifestyle | Beach. Indian Fire God (The Going of the Medicine-Horse)Ĭhange of Ownership (The Stampede Horse Thieves) We Have Got the Men and the Corn and the Money and the MulesĬheyenne Scouts Patrolling the Big Timber of the North Canadian, Oklahoma His Huge Antagonist Was Held Still By a Wonder that was Born Half of Admiration and Half of AweĬheyenne Scouts Patrolling the Big Timber of the North Canadian Oklahoma Training Horses to Leap Obstacles, Tenth United States Cavalry ![]() The Advance-Guard, or The Military Sacrifice. How the Horses Died for Their Country at Santiago The 9th US Infantry entery Peking August 15 1900 Watering the Texas Horses of the Third Cavalry in Lake Michigan ![]()
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