- CountryUS
- Town:MO Kansas City
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Year of creation:1915
- Rider(s):The Scout
- Sculptor(s):Dallin, Cyrus Edwin
(1861–1944) created only one equestrian statue: of Paul Revere in Boston, and that not without pain. Only the fifth version of the design was accepted, and once accepted there was a lack of funds, as a result of which the statue was only unveiled in 1940. Dallin was best known for his outstanding four-piece equestrian sculpture series called The Epic of the Indian, consisting of A Signal of Peace, in Chicago, The Medicine Man in Philadelphia, The Protest, and Appeal to the Great Spirit. The full-size plaster version of The Protest was exhibited at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, where it won a gold medal. The mounted brave defiantly shaking his fist at an enemy was never cast as a full-size bronze, and survives only in statuette form.
- Original in:Kansas City
Description:
The Scout, created for an exposition in San Francisco in 1915, was temporarily placed in Kansas City, Missouri, on its way back by train to Dallin’s studio in Boston. The statue became so popular that the residents raised $15,000 to buy it.