One of the finest equestrians at the Exposition is Cortez by Charles
Niehaus. As we look upon the rider on his sumptuously caparisoned horse
we are convinced that he is every inch a conqueror. He is represented
absolutely motionless - his feet in the stirrups - and yet you feel that
he is a man of tremendous action. You also feel his fine reserve, and
yet how spirited he is! This is that intrepid spirit that desired the
land of the Montezumas. After determined invasions he conquered the
country in the early part of the sixteenth century.



The End of the Trail

By James Earle Fraser, Sculptor



"The trail is lost, the path is hid, and winds that blow from out the
ages sweep me on to that chill borderland where Time's spent sands
engulf lost peoples and lost trails."

- Marion Manville Pope.

One of the strongest works of the Exposition in its intense pathos is
this conception of the end of the Indian race. Over the country the
Indian has ridden for many a weary day, following the long trail that
leads across a continent. A blizzard is on. He has peered to right and
left, but alas! the trail is gone and only despair is his. So has it
been with the Indian. His trail is now lost and on the edge of the
continent he finds himself almost annihilated.