Chuck Wagon in the Snow by James Bama available from Snow Goose Gallery.

 

The chuck wagon, invented in the 1860s by Texas cattleman Charles Goodnight, served as home base for cowboys on open range cattle drives and roundups. A welcome site at the end of hard days, the chuck wagon provides warm meals and companionship out of the saddle. It remains popular today in the open-range states of the far West where distances are great and it is impractical for cowboys to return to the comfort of a ranch house every night. Of the quiet landscape, "Chuck Wagon in the Snow," Bama says he finds magic in the snow and its softening effects upon whatever it touches near his home in Cody, Wyoming.

 

Print released 1975.

Canvas released April 2012.