Dear Mr. Remington, Twenty-One Letters From The West

DEAN KRAKEL

Publication: Publishers: Rockwell Gallery & Jack's Old West Gallery, 1991, Corning, New York & Spearfish, South Dakota

First edition. 8vo. Inscribed on the first page:"Nov 91 / Signed to Paul and Florence Roggi whose wonderful friendship has more than stood the test of time. You gave this manuscript a good combing. Thanks. Cordially Dean Krakel." Color pictorial, stiff wrappers, [11], 140 pp., plus 14 pages of illustrations mostly from photographs, frontispiece, foreward, introduction, illustrated mostly from photographs, appendix, index. Introduction by Robert F. Rockwell. Introduction by Dean Krakel. Robert F. Rockwell says : " ... is exciting, different and the most informative book I have ever read about the life of the great artist." A collection of 21 letters the author writes addressed to Frederic Remington, the iconic artist of the American frontier. Using Remington as an imagined correspondent, Krakel travels through the modern American West, reflecting on places, landscapes, and histories that Remington helped immortalize. Each letter blends personal observation, historical reflection, and cultural commentary, contrasting the mythic West of Remington's art with the realities of a region transformed by time, development, and environmental change. Fine copy.