The Soundtrack of the American West
*The following is part of a series of blog posts researched and written by Mark Clardy, SRM Docent and independent scholar.* Listen to the paintings of Charlie Russell, Frederic Remington, and other artists of the West! Listen carefully, and you might hear dusty cowboys serenading restless cattle, or maybe a harmonica just over the horizon. Brush strokes pulse with the beat of Native American drums. Staccato clouds gallop across the sunset, echoing the ochre trills of a distant flute. Bugle calls and saloon pianos, pow-wow dances and tribal medicine songs, even las canciones de la frontera – they’re all clamoring [...]