Medium: Watercolor on paper.

Dimensions: 20 1/2 x 30 1/2 in. (52.1 x 77.5 cm)

In summer 1893 Remington visited Yellowstone, America’s first national park, to research an article on its soldiers for Harper’s Weekly. While there, he joined superintendent George S. Anderson and longtime government scout Felix Burgess on an expedition to the park’s backcounty in search of animal poachers. This watercolor depicts Burgess leading a group of mounted soldiers and pack mules through a spongy mountain meadow in search of solid ground. It served first as the study for an illustration accompanying "Policing the Yellowstone" in Harper’s Weekly on January 12, 1895, and later as a chapter illustration in Remington’s anthology Pony Tracks.

Метрополитен-музей
	Оригинальное название	Metropolitan Museum of Art
	Местонахождение	Манхэттен, Нью-Йорк, США
	Координаты	40° 46′ 46″ с. ш., 73° 57′ 48″ з. д.
	Дата основания	1870
	Сайт	www.metmuseum.org
	Авторитетный файл	: Q160236 VIAF: 126238294 ISNI: 0000000419368761 ULAN: 500125157 OSM: 3698894 Open Library: OL24127A WorldCat