Powder River

Frank Reaugh Estate
Reaugh took a sketching trip to Wyoming and Montana in 1914, sketching at Yellowstone and in the Powder River basin. He stayed stayed at the OW and LX Bar ranches of then-Wyoming-governor John B. Kendrick, part of the Kendrick Cattle Company. The headquarters for these ranches were on Old Woman Creek north of Lusk, Wyoming, and on Hanging Woman Creek in Big Horn County in southeastern Montana. Reaugh considered the resultant Wyoming painting, Powder River, his finest work of pure landscape, and hoped to sell it to Governor Kendrick. The governor declined to purchase the painting.