Shooting a Cougar

Alfred Jacob Miller captures a heart-pounding moment of survival in the untamed American West. A Native American hunter, mounted on a startled white horse, fires his pistol upward at a fierce cougar perched high on a rocky ledge. Painted in the Romantic style, the scene emphasizes the raw, dramatic power of nature and the perilous life of frontier explorers. Miller, who traveled with fur trappers in the 1830s, used these vivid scenes to bring the wild, dangerous beauty of the Rocky Mountains back to curious Eastern audiences.

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