This poster commemorates the (2004 - 2006) Lewis and Clark bicentennial and fits a standard 18" x 24" poster frame. To order your copy of A Westward Glance, just send a check to me at the address below and I will get one on its way to you. As always I will be glad to personalize it to you or someone else, just let me know.


A WESTWARD GLANCE
Sacajawea at Fort Mandan 1804

The original painting depicts Sacajawea near the Missouri River's edge in November of 1804. A mere 14 or 15 years of age and pregnant with her first child, Sacajawea was experiencing major changes in her life by late 1804. In mid-November, the Corps of Discovery was moving into their unfinished cabin in the three-sided fort that they had named Fort Mandan, and hired Toussaint Charbonneau, Sacajawea's husband as an interpreter for their trip west, up river in the spring. Ice was forming at the river's edge and the brutal plains winter was eminent. Walking to the river for water, she steps up on the roots of an old cottonwood tree and contemplates childbirth and the upcoming journey with these white strangers. In the spring she would go west, become an integral part of the Missouri River's exploration and secure an honored place in history. On this snowy November evening, before heading back to her chores in the fort, she pauses for one last westward glance.

18" x 24"
$35.00 plus $5.00 postage

GUARD DUTY 1804

They were hand picked and wilderness tested, these young
soldiers of what Lewis and Clark called "the Corp of
Discovery". By the late summer of 1804 they had become a
tough and determined band of brothers.

Military discipline combined with the certain knowledge that
the frontier demands constant vigilance motivates this
soldier to do his duty while his weary companions talk
around the driftwood camp fires, then roll into their blankets.

Wearing his infantry fatigues, standing with his bayonet
affixed as the last light fades from the sky; this private takes
his turn, at guard duty.

Kyle Carroll July 2004

 

Guard Duty 1804
5" x 7" oil on board $485.00
5" x 7" Canvas prints $85.00