Along the Old Trail

Three riders on horseback pause on a sagebrush plain — a figure in a red blanket on a pinto at left, two others on brown and white horses at center and right. Blue and purple mountains rise behind them under a wide pale sky. A dog trots through the scrub in the foreground, and a camp with a covered wagon is visible at left. Black grew up in the Kickapoo Valley of Wisconsin and made his earliest drawings with earth pigments and red stone dug from the ground.