Virtual Gallery 708

"The body of work mainly, the intent was to emphasize the Forsyth Scouts which were a volunteer group of farmers from Lincoln County numbering 52 that signed up with General Sherman at the Shimeron Ranch, which was Southeast of Lincoln in 1869. That party of ex-Colorado first calvary members and farmers headed by J.J. Peate proceeded with the calvary and the Pawnee Native Americans to attack the Cheyenne at the Battle of Summit Springs North of Adalia, Colorado at Beecher Island also known as the Battle of the Arickaree. They were surrounded on this little island dug in, they were attacked by many thousands of Native Americans and there were only three hundred of them and they were able to survive for three days. They were rendered to eat rotten horse meat at the last stage of the battle. They were also reinforced by an element from Fort Wallace at the conclusion of the battle and they survived. My painting is not only to honor these Forsyth Scouts but also the paintings depict the Spillman Creek Massacre, the Moffet Massacre and other Native American raids in North Central Kansas that occurred in the late 1860s. I've researched quite a few of these paintings and tried to make them historically correct."