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Fred Remington If I heard someone talking about the American West, the first person that I would think of would be Frederick Remington. No artist gave the eastern Americans a glance at the west better than Frederick Remington. He defined the myths and the realties of the American West. Frederick Remington was born in Canton, New York in 1841. Remington loved art even as a child. He was always drawing sketches of his fellow students at his school, Highland Academy. Remington later went to the Yale School of Fine Arts and had many of his sketches published in the Yale Courant. When Remington was a young man his family had financial trouble, forcing him to quit school and work as a clerk. Remington was very uninterested in his job, and art consumed his mind and energy. In 1881, Remington left home and went on a trip to the place he had wanted to see since he was a child, the West. He spent countless hours with pen in hand during his few months’ visit. Remington sent one of his sketches to Harpers Weekly, upon his return to New York. This was the start of a long relationship with the publication. In 1883, Remington was getting anxious to see the West remington, west, sketches, new, life, american, york, took, school, paintings, one, national, kansas, home, frederick, art, academy, yale, work, weekly, watercolor, upon, trip, time, start, sent, return, remingtons, recognition, real, people, pen, part, motivation, mexico