Pioneer art

#OTD in 1843, the first major wagon train departed for the west coast on the Oregon Trail. Thousands of more pioneers followed in the upcoming decades. Learn more here!

Girl on Oregon Trail by Benjamin Wu

Vienna Jaques: Woman of Faith

“I didn’t choose art as a career, it chose me” is the answer often given by Tom Browning whenever asked why he decided to become an artist. Browning began drawing horses, wildlife and Indians at age seven, and after five decades of painting and studying the work of Charlie Russell, James Reynolds and Haddon Sundblom,...Read More

Prairie Fever was also known as “Prairie Madness.” It affected settlers emigrating to the Great Plains following the Homestead Act of 1862. It affected men but women were more prone to the affliction caused by isolation and the loneliness on the endless, windblown prairies.

On the American frontier, dinner might have been vinegar pie, bear meat, or nothing at all.

Since 1963, Trailside Galleries has been regarded as one of the pre-eminent dealers in American representational art, specializing in a rich and varied collection of works by the leading western, wildlife, figurative, impressionist, and landscape artists in the country. The artist roster includes members of the Cowboy Artists of America, National Academy of Design, Oil Painters of America, the Prix De West, Society of Animal Artists, National Sculpture Society and Masters of the American…

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There were countless trails created from the wheels of the wagons. If the cart was too heavy to cross the water, household necessities were often left behind. Parents often died, leaving their children to fend for themselves. By the end of the era, there were at least ten people buried…

I received an email from a sweetyoung mother yesterday that encouraged my heart and strengthened my purposefor spending the time I invest in blogging. I'm going to share some of her thoughts in just a