art sales for fine art

... where art and art lovers meet...

 
How we develope a print file for Giclee Printing
Studio's for artistis represented by ARTsales.com
ARTists Represented at ARTsales.com
ARTicles on topics of interest
ART History topics from 4000 BCE to the Present
A Directory of art resources on the Internet
 
SHOPPING
ARTsales.com

ARTprints
Shop for prints at ARTsales.com
Print Archive

Ark Prints
Shop Artsales.com

Francis Xavier
Co_Founder of the Jesuit Order and Missionary to Japan
Mission to Japan

Sponsor
Support

Peregrine
Chester Comstock

Golden Eagle
Comstock Studio

Ancient Mystery
Chester Comstock

Nuptial Finery
Comstock Studio

La Paloma
Chester Comstock

Gyr Falcon
Comstock Studio

Earl Waggoner
Giclee Prints

Sponsor
Support

The fate of the American bison was inexplicably linked to the expansion of European exploration and settlement of the North American continent.

 

The buffalo was the "walking commissary’"
of the American plains indian cultures from before European settlement
began in 1607 until the last Sioux buffalo hunt in 1883

American Bison by Chester Comstock
commissioned to honor donors to
"The Villages" Florida charter school
©
2007 Comstock Sculpture Studio

About encounters with buffalo from the Journal of the Louis and Clark Expedition 1803-1806

On the return voyage the expedition reached the old camp at White Bear Islands, above the Great Falls on the Missouri river, July 11 1806. The following accounts were recorded in the days following their arrival by Meriwether Lewis.

July 7, 11, 12, 1806

N. 45. E. 2M. passed ridge between Columbia and Missouri rivers.
Hunters go down Medicine river to find Elk, meet up with us across the
plain leading to White Bear Islands. Huge "hirrds" of buffalo. Mating
season for buffalo, bulls produce a belligerent sound. Immense amounts of
bulls allow roar to remain constant. Amazing sight to see so many buffalo.
Horses must get used to buffalo, never seen them before noises frightened
them.
Reached white bear islands at bottom of Missouri river at least 10 thousand buffalo within 2 miles.

Map draw of Lewis and Clark Portage around the Great Falls

Landsat image of Great Falls Montana Aug. 2000
200 years ago when Lewis and Clark reached this area on July 12,1806 there were
ten thousand buffalo within two miles of the White Bear Islands.

July 14, 1806

Carriage wheels dug up, found in good condition. Meat was set in
sun to dry and cut thinner to speed the drying process. Buffalo meat is
scrumptious compared to nasty roots we've been eating. Money is too wet to
deposit so I take the precaution of drying it high up in scaffolds covered
with skins. Wolves were killed by the hunters. There are many wolves
surrounding us, howling and such. They have replaced the buffalo. I saw 27
dead buffalo, huge animals. Drewyer has not returned.

July 16, 1806

Everywhere I look I see a beautiful shade of green, spotted with
thousands of buffaloes. The wolves have decreased in number. We managed to
kill a buffalo and took the rear and tongue for ample amounts of meat.
Once we came to the rose river, I decided to camp. We saw a bleeding
buffalo , this buffalo led us to believe that indians were near, possible
the blackfoots. We want to avoid any contact with these indians, they may
try to capture our horses. This a dangerous job! The blackfoots an the
Minnetares of Fort (Indian tribes) are vicious and wild, we must AVOID
them at all costs.


Charlie Russell's 1924 sculpture of indians hunting
Buffalo on the high plains of Montana
"Meat for Wild Men"

July 18,19, 1806

More huge herds of buffalo for the last twelve miles. Wolves,
antelopes,and horses were also spotted. Traveled five miles to Maria's
river, got there around 6 p.m.camped on the west side after killing some
buffalo. It has become extremely cold, rainy and windy. The weather is
terrible! To add to the unpleasantness, a couple a wolves paid us a visit
today, I managed to shoot one.


These accounts of encounters with buffalo were recorded during the return trip by Meriwether Lewis during their travels between the Rocky Mountain Front, the Great Falls and down river forty miles to the confluence of Maria's river with the Missouri, in of July 1806


Articles on the expansion of the American west and the fate of the American Buffalo during the American 19th century

Lewis and Clark on the Missouri July 1806

The Buffalo Hunt, illustrated by Catlin, Bodmer, Miller and other artists 1830-1930

Philip Sheridan's command 1867-1983

 

 

Site map | Shop |Top of Page | Legal | Privacy | Contact Us | Disclaimer   
©2003-2010, artsales.com All Rights Reserved