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• Norman Rockwell(American, 1894–1978)
• Before 1966
• Oil paint on canvas covered board
• Gift of Richard and Sue Williams, 1975.154

This painting is an illustration advertising the 1966 remake of the classic Western-genre film Stagecoach(1939) tells the story of two stagecoach drivers traveling from Arizona to New Mexico in 1880. Throughout the film, Indigenous peoples are depicted as “simplistic savages” who attack the settlers unprovoked. This type of imagery was used as propaganda to encourage the westward expansion and justify the removal of the Indigenous peoples from the area.