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Ridge Durand, Bronze “Eagle Catcher" Wyoming Cowboy Artist, Lakota Med - $695 (Adams)
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Ridge Durand (Lakota: Tate Wakpa Wanbli: Wind River Eagle) (1933-2002), rancher and cowboy artist. Of mixed Anglo, Lakota, and Shoshoni ancestry, Durand apprenticed as a traditional herbalist and healer (Lakota: pejuta wicasa), eventually becoming a member of the Lakota Medicine Men's Society. He was a local personality in Laramie, Wyoming, known primarily as a living history re-enactor from the Fur Trapping period (1810-1880) of Old West history.
He spent his youth running horses in the hills west of Laramie. As an adult, he made his living as a cowboy, trapper, and hunting guide, eventually becoming a rancher himself, at Crazy Mountain Ranch, 50 miles southwest of Laramie, in the Medicine Bow Mountains, about three miles from the foot of the Rawah Peaks. He made his home there in a log cabin built in the 1870s, with an adjacent tipi for summers.