Frederic
Remington, The Apache War–Indian Scouts on Geronimo's Trail,
from Harper's Weekly (January 9, 1886)
His luck changed, however, when Harper Brothers, the
New York publisher of a popular weekly, expressed interest in several
drawings of western subjects that he had brought with him when he returned
east. Crudely done, these early sketches had to be redrawn by others
before publication. Nevertheless, Remington soon established himself
as an accurate observer of western life at a time when eastern audiences
were eager for images of the Far West.
