Khan Academy: Remington, the Old Dragoons of 1850

In this video [2:49] Met curator Thayer Tolles on history and myth in Frederic Remington's The Old Dragoons of 1850, 1905, cast 1907. Remington's ambitious group includes five horses and four riders: two American cavalrymen and two Plains Indians. The Dragoons, who patrolled the land west of the Mississippi River, have closed in on the fleeing Indians, and the men are locked in hand-to-hand combat.