Prose Sketches to accompany the series of paintings by Frank Reaugh entitled Twenty Four Hours with the Herd Very Near Fine And some of Selous’ friends

And some of Selous’ friends shed additional light on the man who inspired Sir Henry Rider Haggard to create Allan Quatermain

All the “wit and wacky” you have come to love from the creator of Shrek

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Drawing on his deep expertise in early colonial history

Prose Sketches to accompany the series of paintings by Frank Reaugh entitled Twenty Four Hours with the Herd Very Near Fine And some of Selous’ friendsThis booklet gives commentary on seven paintings by Reaugh. The paintings: Driving the Herd, Watering the Herd, Bedding the Herd, Guarding the Herd, The Stampede in the Canyon, Milling Cattle, and The Herd Moves On. In the Foreword, Reaugh wrotes the paintings were reminscient of my first trips to the western plains, in the early eighties, where it was still a free grass countryThe barbed wrie had not come yet: nor the nester: nor the sheep. Dallas: