Word: riverboatmen
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Knights of the Forest. Older painters did it the hard way. Some, like Frederic Remington, rode with the cavalry; others, like Charles Russell, rode the range as cowboys. Each immortalized the West he knew. Albert Bierstadt portrayed the Rockies; George Caleb Bingham the riverboatmen he first knew as a boy on the Missouri. To William Jacob Hays, the buffalo was already a hulking ghost in the dawn of a new day, while James Walker captured another vanishing species, the Spanish vaquero...
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