The pursuit

Print reproduces a painting by A.F. Tait in a lithograph by Louis Maurer for Currier & Ives; it depicts trappers pursuing in combat Indigenous persons on horseback. In the foreground, one pair of riders; a trapper, on saddled roan mount, wearing hat and animal-skin clothing, aiming a pistol with his right hand; an Indigenous person, bareback on black horse, leaning to left side of mount, looking back, holding a spear in his right hand; in the mid-ground, more riders in thel tall grass; in the background, largely cloudy sky with a single bird in flight; a little less than half the print shows the sky