I've been on a thrifting hot streak lately and stumbled across James Earle Fraser's The End of the Trail imagery in everything from ash trays to book ends to bar coasters. I was familiar with the image, but not the artist. I've come to discover that Fraser was born in Winona, Minnesota, and was also responsible for the buffalo nickel. This dude is a total superbeast.
The End of the Trail.
A foreboding commentary on the vanishing Native American. The sculpture portrays the exhausted Sioux barely clinging to his equally weary steed. Both rider and horse are at their wit's end.
I always thought this image captured some kind of apocalyptic finale. The last day on earth before some unseen cataclysmic event. The beaten rider and horse admit defeat and wait for the great big fireball in the sky. I also had always associated the image with the Iron Maiden song "Run to the Hills." Both the song and the sculpture kick all sorts of ass.
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