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An important and desirable work of art is found in a rare piece by William Herbert “Buck”
Dunton. The oil painting titled “The Trail Boss (Settlers & Seeds, Civilization's Forerunners)”
is estimated at $200,000-300,000 in Michaan’s Auctions June Fine Sale. “The Trail Boss”
was commissioned by the D.M. Ferry Seed Company in 1910. Dunton was hired to create an iconic
image that encapsulated the totality of what it meant to migrate to the west. The painting
depicts the Trail Boss, or wagon train foreman, traveling on horseback through a western plain
with covered wagons in tow. Dunton’s unique style of painting in bold, patterned brushstrokes
of rich color is as distinctive as his themes of the Old West.