James Earle Fraser (1876 - 1953)
End of the Trail
Fraser's silhouette of a dejected Indian on his dispirited horse is one of the most often-repeated images of an Indian subject. The monumental version of this sculpture, placed in San Francisco, California, for the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, symbolized the belief that the Indian race, threatened with extinction, had been pushed to the edge of the continent. The pathos of the image implied that this result was sad, but inevitable. The sculpture, however, is open to multiple interpretations, with the passing of the nomadic life of the Plains being the most dominant.
ca. 1918, bronze
Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Clara S. Peck Purchase Fund, acc. 112.67.
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