Painter, sculptor and writer Frederic Remington was born on October 4, 1861 in Canton, New York. Once a resident of Butler County, he operated a sheep ranch near Plum Grove in Fairmount Township from 1883 to1884.

Briefly attending the Yale School of Fine Arts & the Art Students League in New York, Remington went on to become the West’s most successful illustrator. As a pictorial historian, he preserved memories of a rapidly vanishing saga, giving the country what has become the accepted vision of the American West. In nearly 3000 drawings and paintings, 22 bronze sculptures, 8 books, a Broadway play, and over 100 articles and stories, he immortalized the Western experience as one of independence, individualism, and stoic heroism.

His works are exhibited in museums across the nation. In 1888 he won both the Clarke and Hallgarten prizes at the annual exhibition of the National Academy of Design. At the Paris Universal Exposition of 1889 awarded him the silver medal. The U.S. Post Office in 1940 issued a special commemorative stamp honoring Remington.