Le Docteur Ox

Native Americans, and behind them a great herd of bison, all fleeing before the settlers. In the foreground, a group of miners with a gun, a pickaxe, and a horse, is making its way across the plain. Behind them, a farmer is ploughing the fields with an ox. The daring pioneers travelled on foot, on horseback, in covered wagons, by stagecoach or by train in their quest for land. The first transcontinental had just been completed in 1869 (just three years before the painting was made), linking the east