Joel Daniel Phillips
Then Your Prairies Can Be Covered With Speckled Cattle 1-16
(After Eadweard Muybridge)
2017
Reproductions, original works Charcoal & Graphite on Paper
Courtesy of the Denver Art Museum

”These men (professional buffalo hunters) have done more in the last two years, and will do more in the next year, to settle the vexed Indian question, than the entire regular army has done in the last forty years. They are destroying the Indians’ commissary. And it is a well known fact that an army losing its base of supplies is placed at a great disadvantage. Send them powder and lead, if you will; but for a lasting peace, let them kill, skin and sell until the buffaloes are exterminated. Then your prairies can be covered with speckled cattle.”
Philip Sheridan, General in Chief of the U.S. Army, 1867-1883

“I would not seriously regret the total disappearance of the buffalo from our western plains, in its effect upon the Indians,”
Columbus Delano, Secretary of the Interior, 1873