Louis L'Amour (1908 -1988), a famous American writer of Western novels. He wrote more than 100 books and 400 short stories. He is one of the most prolific and popular authors in the world. There are more than 200 million copies of his books in print and more than 45 of his novels were adapted into Hollywood films.If you are curious, take a look at his SHORT biography at this site:
http://www.biography.com/people/louis-lamour-9372242An American Artist: Frederic Remington
Frederic Remington (October 4, 1861 -December 26, 1909) was an American painter, illustrator, sculptor, and writer who specialised in depictions of the Old American West, specifically concentrating on the last quarter of the 19th century American West and images of cowboys, American Indians, and the U.S. Cavalry.
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| Frederic Remington |
Take a look at a few more of Remington's paintings as you listen again to the cowboy song I shared with you in Post 31 on May 16th, 2017. In Post 31 you have the lyrics. Here you have the song with some of Remington's art work.
Git Along Little Dogie (Get Along Little Dogie)
It's a very well-known cowboy song....and it takes us (and the dogies) to WYOMING.
A famous singer/actor cowboy, Roy Rogers, sings it here in this video from 1940:
George Catlin (July 26, 1796 - December 23, 1872) was an earlier American painter, author and traveller who specialised in portraits of Native Americans in the Old West. He worried that the vast herds of buffalo and the Indians who depended on them would someday be gone forever and he called for the creation of a nation's park to save them. But no one listened.
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| George Catlin, by William Fisk, 1849 |
My best,
Jane
ALL THINGS ARE CONNECTED!
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-- dogie = Do you remember the meaning of dogie? Origin= Western U.S. = a stray or motherless calf (a stray dog = "un chien errant") ( a calf = "un veau")
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