“LIKE MANY PEOPLE LIVING IN THE TURN OF THE CENTURY INDUSTRIALIZED EAST, REMINGTON WAS OBSESSED WITH THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HIS OWN MODERN ERA, WITH ITS SPRAWLING CITIES, RUMBLING MACHINERY, AND FOREIGN IMMIGRANTS, AND AN IDEALIZED, SENTIMENTALIZED “OLD AMERICA” LEFT IN ITS WAKE. IT WAS FROM THIS OBSESSION, VIRTUALLY THE CENTRAL DRAMA IN REMINGTON’S LIFE, THAT HIS VISION OF THE WEST EMERGED.”