The End of the Trail is a sculpture depicting an American Indian warrior slumped over on his horse. It is nowadays one of the most recognizable images in the US. James Earl Fraser created the original model of this sculpture – only 18 inches tall – in 1894, when he was 17 years old. Fraser was asked to replicate the sculpture in plaster for the 1914 Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, where some Shaler saw it. He was child of pioneer farmers, who had had contact with Native Americans, and was saddened by their disappearance over the years. As a tribute to the Native Americans, he commissioned Fraser to cast the sculpture in bronze as a gift to the City of Waupun, where it was unveiled on its present site in 1929 and became a Wisconsin landmark.
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