A Woman's Work is Never Done

The famed cowboy artist’s equal treatment of men and women keeps his art in the top spot.

- Meghan Saar

The Plains Indian women’s role in the buffalo hunt was no small thing. “Theirs was harder work than buffalo hunting,” explained John C. Ewers, in The Blackfeet.

“At the time of the ‘great fall hunt,’ there was no rest nor excuse for her. She must work at any and all hours,” wrote Col. Richard Irving Dodge, in his 1882 book,