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Fight For The Water Hole, By Frederic Remington: Analysis
In addition to Fight for the Water Hole, another one of Frederic Remington’s works that capture the reality and struggle of life in the west is his painting, The Emigrants. In this artwork, a group of Native Americans are shown in the exact moment before ambushing a traveling band of settlers, more specifically, one lone man as he begins to cross a body of water. Here, Remington depicts the tension and conflict between the new settlers and the existing Native Americans. This imminently violent scene shows that starting a new beginning and discovering new land was not easy and there were several dangerous factors they had to face. The same is true for the Native Americans as well. Life for them became a struggle of trying to defend their land.
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