On The War Trail - Denver, CO
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Outspoken1
N 39° 44.332 W 104° 59.323
13S E 500966 N 4398774
Quick Description: On the War Trail in Denver's Civic Center Park
Location: Colorado, United States
Date Posted: 1/20/2008 7:09:18 PM
Waymark Code: WM30KD
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Long Description:
In the mid-1910s, at the request of Major Robert Speer (who was
also Denver Mayor from 1904-1912 and 1916-1918), two large bronzes
in Civic Center park were given to the city by two civic-minded
Denver residents who wanted to leave lasting memorials of beauty to
the city. In 1922, “On the War Trail” depicting an American Indian
on a horse was presented to the city by Stephen Knight.
Alexander Phimster Proctor was best known for his life-sized
wild animal sculptures for the World's Columbian Exhibition in
Chicago. Proctor turned out a prodigious amount of work; statuatory
for the Paris exposition and the Bronx Zoo, animals for Theodore
Roosevelt's White House, the Princeton tigers, and the immortal
mustang group at the University of Texas which has been called the
greatest equine statue in the world. He was a friend and hunting
companion of many notable Americans including Elihu Root, Gifford
Pinchot, Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.
(http://denver.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/1997/11/10/editorial3.html).