Table of Contents

• Foreward
• Acknowledgements
• Part One: Prelude
• GENRE: AMERICAN BRONZES
• Why we learned to cast bronze and what it is like
• Browning, Montana, early Sixties
• How I got to the Blackfeet Reservation and what it was like
• Browning, Montana, 1961
• History of the Blackfeet and how artists joined them
• High northern prairie, 1600s forward
• "Indian Days"
• Browning, Montana, in the Sixties
• The roots of American equestrian Bronzes
• Washington, D.C., 1780s to the 1800s
• PROVENANCE: FAMILY HISTORY
• The importance of story: the quick-draw guy
• Browning, 1968
• Bob's genealogical roots and how his parents got to Browning
• The Palatine to England to Quebec to Montana, 1600s to 1900s
• Bob's Childhood
• Browning, World War I and after
• The white community and how Bob acquired an Indian "Mother"
• Milk River Ridge, the Twenties
• Artists on the Scene
• Glacier Park, the Twenties
• Earl Heikka, "crazy artist feller"
• Great Falls, Twenties and Thirties
• INSPIRATION: FROM MUSIC TO SCULPTURE
• First career: leading prize-winning high school bands
• 1934-1950
• Second career: successful taxidermist
• Browning, 1950-1964
• The Scriver Museum of Montana Wildlife
• Browning, the Fifties
• The earliest sculptures and the C.M. Russell Contest
• Browning, the Fifties
• Beginning to sell
• Browning, late Fifties
• PLASTILENE: THE EARLY YEARS
• About the material and what it demands
• Greenwich Village, the Forties
• Malvina Hoffman's plastilene
• Greenwich Village, the Forties
• Platilene sculptures shelved
• Browning, 1962
• The miniature wildlife dioramas: a team effort
• Browning, Spring 1962
• Bob nearly goes blind
• Browning, Summer 1962
• Evelyn Cole
• Chinook, Montana, 1967
• My first hunting trips
• The Rocky Mountain Front, Fall 1962
• ARMATURE: FORMING STRUCTURE
• About armatures
• The armature of Bob's inner world
• Browning, the sixties
• The Buffalo Roundup: We both ride
• Moiese, 1963
• Organic armatures: skeletons
• Bynum, Sun River, Moiese, Starr School, mix-Sixties
• Broken ribcage
• Browning, 1965
• WASTE MOULD: SHARDS ON THE TABLE
• Waste molds, made for destruction
• Dick Flood
• The northern prairie, Fifties and Sixties
• Ace Powell
• Hungry Horse, and Browning, 1928-1976
• John Clarke
• East Glacier, 1881-1970
• The last full-mount: a moose
• Browning, 1968
• Eegie
• Browning, 1968
• Electric cowboys
• Cut Bank Creek, 1965
• Life in Browning
• The Sixties
• Drifters
• Browning, mid-Sixties
• Downhill
• Hudson's Bay Divide, Late Sixties
• PLASTER ORIGINAL: FIRST SUCCESS
• About plaster originals: the key
• George Grey
• Browning, 1968
• American Artist and Paul Juley
• Browning 1964
• True Magazine
• Browning, 1965
• New York Shows
• Manhattan, 1963
• Glenbow Foundation
• Calgary, 1967
• Christmas
• Browning, 1964
• Hunting in the Snow
• East front of the Rockies, 1965
• BLACK TUFFY: TROUBLES BEGIN
• About flexible moulds
• Browning, Fifties and foreward
• The Big Flood
• Blackfeet Reservation, 1964
• Animals drive a wedge
• Bob the conservative, Mary the activist
• Browning, 1969
• Keith Seele, James Willard Schultz, Lone Wolf and Paul Dyck
• The Reservation 1966
• Overwork and blow-ups
• Browning 1969
• Into the Wild, Bucky, and breaking points
• The reservation, late Sixties
• Hunting again, Sweetgrass Hills
• MOTHER MOLD: WIVES AND OTHERS

  About mother molds

• Ellison Westgarth Macfie Scriver
• Alice the high school kid
• Browning and Malta, 1937-1943
• Jeanette the firebrand
• Edmonton and Browning, 1946-1959
• Arlene the ideal
• Browning, 1959-1962
• Mary the English teacher
• Browning, 1966-1970
• Lorraine the widow
• Browning and Vancouver Island, 1972-2002
• LOST WAX: CRUCIFIX, PIETA, AND MARGARET

  Maxing of a wax duplicate

• Portrait of a polo player
• Santa Rosa, Anacortes, 1967
• Bob's daughter dies
• Anacortes, 1967 and 1968
• Maurice poses for Jesus
• Browning, 1967 and 1968
• Lost in grizzly country
• St. Mary's, 1969
• Part Two: Crescendo
• INVESTMENT: NEW YORK CITY
• Old-fashioned plaster investment
• To Tell the Truth and Malvina Hoffman
• New York City, 1965
• A Moose hunt
• Swan Hills, Alberta 1969
• CASTING BRONZE: THE BUFFALO BILL HISTORICAL CENTER
• Casting bronze: a review
• Browning, Montana, 1932-1999
• One hundred bronzes
• Browning and Cody, 1969
• Harry Jackson
• Cody and Browning, 1969
• A jubilant hunting trip
• East Front of the Rockies, 1969
• MOLTEN BRONZE: COWBOY HALL OF FAME
• Moment of truth
• The Western art boom
• C.M. Russell Museum Benefit Auction
• Great Falls, Montana, 1970 to the present
• Dean Krakel, cowboys and Indians
• Oklahoma City, 1965 to the end
• Bill Lindermana
• Denver and Browning, 1967-1970
• The National Rodeo Finals
• Oklahoma City, 1970
• Asger Mikkelson
• Browning, 1970-1975
• Meltdown of a marriage
• Part Three: Diminuendo
• CHASING: THE THUNDER PIPE BUNDLE
• How to "chase"a bronze
• Blackfeet religious ceremonies
• Browning, 1963 to 1999
• Blackfeet ceremonial objects
• Bob cuts the rawhide
• Browning, 1963
• Cree hauling ceremony, Blackfeet bundle opening
• Browning, 1967 to 1999
• The Thunder Pipe Bundle transfer
• Browning, 1969
• Countin Coup
• Browning and Edmotnon, 1976-1990
• The million-dollar artifact collection
• Browning and Edmonton, 1990 to present
• he Badger Lodge
• Browning and Two Medicine, 1971
• TORCH: THE PRINCE OF PEACE
• Welding bronze
• Browning, 1963 foreward
• Losing family members
• 1976 forward
• The Prince of Peace
• 1982 forward
• Trying to rekindle the flameBrowning, 1985 forward
• COOLING: LEWIS AND CLARK
• The journey slows
• Fort Benton and Great Falls, 1974 foreward
• Lewis and Clark begin
• Fort Benton, 1974 forward
• Distinguished Achievements
• Great Falls 1990
• Long quiet days in the shop
• Browning, 1988 forward
• Facing Death
• Browning, late Ninties
• Death on Bob's terms
• Browning, 1999
• "The Man in Buckskin"
• Valier, 2002
• PATINA: OVERVIEW
• How patinas are formed
• What is a "great artist"
• The artist as customer
• The Flatiron Ranch
• Browning, 1980
• The last visit and goodbye
• Browning, 1998
• Four Sculptors, four destinies
• Browning, 1929
• Notes
• Bob Scriver Timeline
• Biblography

About the Author

Mary Strachan Scriver lives in Valier, Montana, near the Blackfeet reservation, where she has worked as a teacher, a writer, and a Unitarian minister.