The Telling Souls of Frederick Remington
I have few artists that I admire. No mine are not from the galleries and Louvre's of the patricians, but mine paint to a scene which captures the spirit of the paint as it paints the canvas of humanity in it's photographic form.
Tim Cox is one of the few modern painters who I deem have any talent, as he captures horses in their form as they are in the American west. His predecessor is a Frederick Remington whose work I greatly admire from a historical view, as his view was always precise and a Remington painting writes away the fiction of the historians with his 100,000 word portraits.
Theodore Roosevelt, utilized numbers of Remington works as they captured that world which is long gone, but still has course in the recesses of the eddies of the rivers of what is still thee American West.
As I write enough about Gen. George Armstrong Custer in explaining he was part of a mass murder in which ignorant Indians were blamed as the real culprits were on the east coast and the Indian trading ring, it was of benefit in the book Pony Tracks, but Frederick Remington, that he writes a bit of the olde west besides drawing it.
Remington had been allowed along from the Pine Ridge of Dakota Territory to accompany Gen. Nelson Appleton Miles on a counsel with the reforming savages of the northern Great Plains into Montana. Remington speaks of the plainsman Miles in riding as fast up an incline as down, and the incline in most cases would be vertical as all western riders prided themselves on horsemanship.
In this, I was amused that Libby Custer's call to me in once again exposing the facts of the Custer Last Stand to a new generation, in order to not allow satan's lies to be established, found an exact summation of the majority of work which the Holy Ghost Inspired in me in a quote from Remington.
It must be remembered fully, that Gen. Miles wrote soon after the mass murder of the Custer group a definitive report on what actually took place. So for the myriads of books on the fiction of Custer, there was a report by 1880 which explained all which took place, and did so without "Indian embellishments" as Indians lied and when they were not lying they were fabricating a lie.
That is why the Remington assessment is of interest, as he was with the United States Cavalry. Miles was present, and this group had just covered the Custer battleground, and this is what Frederick Remington composed.
During the day we went all over the battle-field of the Little Big Horn. I heard a good deal of professional criticism , and it is my settled conviction that had Reno and Benteen gone in and fought as hard as they were commanded to do, Custer would have won his fight, and to-day be a major-general. The military moral of that affair for young soldiers is that when in doubt about what to do it is always safe to go in and fight “till you drop,” remembering that, however a citizen may regard the proposition, a soldier cannot afford to be anything else than a “dead lion.”
Frederic Remington. Pony Tracks (Kindle Locations 236-240).
Yes, no matter the propagandas of the modern Mockingbird, the Truth echoes from the past in the blame rested on Reno and Benteen, disregarding direct order for purpose, and it is they who caused the mass murder of the Custer command according to the financial interests and Grant regime grudges against the General exposing all the corruption of the Indian traders before Congress.
I desire you to take special note of the forensic linguistics in this of "dead lion" as I have covered this previously in the verbiage. People always leave tracking phrases or expressions. You do it every day and probably have no idea the sounds you make to the words you speak, repeat who you are. I know where the dead lion comes and where Remington heard it, as Gen. Nelson Miles uttered that very defense of Gen. Custer for Elizabeth Custer when he castigated those smearing Gen. Custer as, "It is easy to kick a dead lion".
For those who are not familiar with Gen. Nelson Appleton Miles, in his time, he was the MacArthur of his era. He was an Indian fighter, who would command in the Spanish American War. He is lost to history, but this man was thee preeminent military officer of this age in all knew who he was. This is the man who tracked down the terrorist Apache led by Geronimo.
They knew exactly what took place at the Little Big Horn and they knew who on the ground were to blame. That is why the military took pains to court martial Reno and Benteen as the cartel did it's best to cover all of this up. The Truth though keeps arising to speak her message.
This is why Frederick Remington's THE LAST STAND drawing of the Custer column is more than an artist conception. Remington spoke to the group who knew body placement and battle formation on that hill. He knew how the Troopers sat and fired, as he had personally been involved in such events. What you are seeing is the closest photo of General Custer and his surviving command as the last hour of battle engulfed them.
Remington like all who "knew" and could not speak the details, as all knew that Gen. Custer as was custom saved the last bullet for himself to avoid horrific Indian torture, as he detailed an Officer to shoot his wife to save her from gang rape and torture every time she was on campaign with the 7th. Col. Dodge speculates on this very matter, but most would not, just as all knew and suspected things that Elizabeth Custer eluded to, and Father Custer outright blamed the Grant regime, but could not do so in public as to the powers involved.
What that painting reveals is the reality that Gen. Custer commanded to the end and if Reno and Benteen had just followed orders, it would have been another Custer victory and he would have had his two stars and not been humiliated as that Lt. Colonel which the jealous military and political establishment kept him at.
I have such fondness for all of Remington's work as each line reveals so much to even how a gut shot man would be seated holding himself.
This continues on as I would that I had the time to invest hours in studying the prints of Frederick Remington, but being poor I have the sentence of only glimpses in time as penetrating as the glimpse this artist captures in the telling souls of Frederick Remington.
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