It came over us sometimes when we
crossed the Golden Gate Bridge into the
city from Marin
County, a community with a shelter, the Marin Humane Society —
or Mar Inhumane Society as my wife and I used to call it — that killed savable animals even though the director herself admitted they could be No Kill if she wanted to.
- Family Life on the Frontier (prior to 1845, Anschutz Collection, Denver)- Fur Traders Descending the Missouri (1845, Metropolitan Museum of Art)- The Concealed Enemy (1845, Stark Museum of Art, Orange, Texas)- The Jolly Flatboatmen (1846, Manoogian Collection, Taylor, Michigan)- Boatmen on the Missouri (1846, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)- Landscape with Cattle (1846, St. Louis Art Museum)- Lighter Relieving a Steamboat Aground (1846 - 47, The White House)- Raftsmen Playing Cards (1847, St. Louis Art Museum)- Captured by Indians (1848, St. Louis Art Museum)- Country Politician (1849, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)- Shooting for the Beef (1850, Brooklyn Museum, New York)- Mississippi Boatman (1850, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC)- The Squatters (1850, Museum of Fine Arts Boston)- The Emigration of Daniel Boone (1851, Washington University, St. Louis)- Trapper's Return (1851, Detroit Institute of Arts)- Canvassing for a Vote (1851 - 52, Nelson - Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas
City)- Fishing on the Mississippi (1851 - 52, Nelson - Atkins Museum, Kansas
City)- The Storm (1852 - 53, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford)- Deer in Stormy Landscape (1852 - 53, Anschutz Collection, Denver)- Western Boatmen Ashore by Night (1854, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth)- Stump Speaking (1853 - 54, St. Louis Art Museum)- View of a Lake in the Mountains (1855, Los Angeles
County Museum of Art)- Washington
Crossing the Delaware (1856, Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia)- Martial Law
or Order No. 11 (1870, State Historical Society of Missouri)- View of Pikes Peak (1872, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas)