The Bronco Buster

It portrays a rugged cowboy character fighting to stay aboard a rearing, plunging bucking horse, with a stirrup swinging free, a quirt in one hand and a fistful of mane and reins in the other.

The earliest one was A Bucking Bronco, an illustration to Theodore Roosevelt's article in the March 1888 issue of Century Magazine entitled "The Home Ranch".

[citation needed] Breaking away from the restricted limits of flat paper, pen and ink and watercolor, Remington moved to the next level of his artistic potential, through the more effective medium of three-dimensional expressions.

Remington, who always strove to capture the essence of the moment in his work, now found he was more able to effectively express that which he had observed first hand: Only those who have ridden a bronco the first time it was saddled, or have lived through a railroad accident, can form any conception of the solemnity of such experiences.

The cast which Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders gave him is now at the Sagamore Hill National Historic Site, Oyster Bay, New York.