Black Angel at Fairview Cemetery in Council Bluffs

 The Fairview Cemetery in Council Bluffs has been there a long time, since before the Mormons were in Kanesville, 1846-1853 as it was used for pioneer burials.  There are no pioneer headstones however.  It is located at the corner of Lafayette and Oakland Ave.   Of particular note is the Black Angel placed to commemorate the death of Ruth Ann Dodge, the wife of General Grenville Dodge, the railroad baron.  The sculpture is by Daniel Chester French.  It is based on a dream Ruth had shortly before her death of an angel offering water.  I must go back in the spring when the water should be running.

Federick Remington: Art for Children by Ernest Raboff, J.B. Lippincott, New York, 1973.

This book gives a brief history of Frederick Remington, who was born in Canton, New York in 1861 and died and died in 1909.  He is credited with almost 3000 drawing and paintings.  He also created bronze sculptures and wrote eight books.  He was famous because of his art by the time he thirty.  His most common theme was the West, mountain men, cowboys and Native Americans.  In his drawings he documented the changes which took place in the West and the changing native American economy.  The book mentions the material is copyrighted so I have borrowed a couple pictures from the internet which are representative of the illustrations in the book.