Lone Wolf had grown up listening to his grandfather’s stories of the great buffalo herds, upon which the Plains Indians depended; their decimation by white hunters was devastating. The artist increasingly focused on producing bronze sculptures in the 1930s, and while as an artist he worked “in the white man’s ways,” he wanted to present things as Indians “saw them and remember what they meant to him.”

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