Swing (Jan-Dec 1945)

What WonM er6 Man Hath Wrought I — 'Zllie Scout BibIiogra{5h: ?v.r\ if Wagnall's J^ew Standard Encyclopedia; "Tou, Too. Can Chisel Tour Way to the Top," (T^u-Way Correspondence School of Sculptury Press); Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (fifth Edition). (Editor's T^ote: This is the first in a series on the world's great sculptural masterpieces written by William P. Rowley, the eminent authority who was the first to advance the theory that Rodin's "Thin\er " was a chess tournament player because he could sit so long without ma\ing a move.) PROBABLY the most widely known of Kansas City's sculp' tural treasures is The Scout, who day after day and night after night sits astride his pony in a beautiful treeshaded natural setting atop a knoll in Penn Valley Park and looks down with undeviating intensity upon the city's mart of trade. The Scout is the work of Cyrus Dallin, the famous Boston sculptor who although himself of pure Caucasian stock drew great inspiration from the imposing figures of the noble red men of the plains and devoted his foremost artistic efforts to the sculpting of Indians. In this he effected a complete reversal of Western tradition, for in the old days — with a few notable exceptions — it was the Indians who sculpt the whites. Quiet, please, the professor is speaking. And even if it is corn, it's better than you can buy at the vegetable stalls. One of the aforementioned notable exceptions was Daniel Boone. He also was a sculptor of note. This phase of Boone's fullsome and many faceted life has never been accorded the attention it so richly deserves, but we have ample verification, carved by his own hand. Most of the trees on whose trunks the carvings appeared have long since gone their