[Rarebooks] fs: Buckskin Sculptor...

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

"SCULPTOR IN BUCKSKIN, an autobiography by Alexander Phimister Proctor"
Norman; University of Oklahoma Press: 1971.

Proctor was a Canadian-American sculptor, born in 1862 and working in 
Western themes and with animal motifs. He grew up in the West and traveled 
and hunted all over the West and much of Canada, and relates tales of his 
life and work with verve, candor and outspokenness. While in Oregon he 
began work on the model for a bronze statue-

"There were plenty of possible models, and I struck a bargain with a 
six-foot three cowboy named Red. Red was one of the most colorful 
characters around Pendleton. If anyone gave him five dollars and a drink of 
whiskey, he would ride one of the buffaloes. The cayuse I was using for a 
model was a walleyed brute, a direct offspring of the devil. One day when 
Red brought him into the studio to pose, he nearly kicked my hat off my 
head with his left hind foot without seeming to move a muscle. The studio 
was only fourteen by sixteen, just large enough for a horse and two men if 
everyone was quiet. With a kicking and bucking horse, there was only room 
for the horse and one man, and that wasn't me. I had sometimes had trouble 
in close quarters with wild animals but had always managed to save myself 
and my model. That time all I wanted to save was my hide. Stovepipe, 
splinters, boxes, table, and high profanity flew around for a time until 
Red finally got the beast settled down. Red insisted that I would be able 
to climb all over the critter in a week, but I had no intention of trying it".

Hardcover. 9"x7.5", 266 pages, b/w illustrations, slipcased. Light wear. 
[05248] $60.00

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