Born Frederic Sackrider Remington on October 4, 1861 in Canton, New York, it seems only natural his life played out the way it did. His father was a newspaper publisher thus Frederic loved to write. His father taught him to ride and was a cavalry officer in the Civil War. Some of the images he drew as a child were of horses and soldiers. His fascination of the West grew through the stories in his father’s newspaper about Indians and wagon trains and far away places like Montana and the Oregon Trail.
Luck was with him when he walked into the office of Outing Magazine to sell one of his stories with illustrations. It turned out the editor was an old Yale mate, Poultney Bigelow. In May of 1887, his first magazine story with illustrations appeared in Outing called “Coursing Rabbits on the Plains” and so began his writing for various publications such as Harper’s, Century, Collier’s and others. He went on to illustrate for other authors as well such as Theodore Roosevelt and Owen Wister but we will get into that later.
About Frederic Remington 