The Phantom Warrior

By Crusader1307

 American Painter Frederic Remington was World renowned for his portraits and landscapes of a time "long gone" to History, The American West. However, it is not usually known, that one of his paintings "America Moves West", which portrays the "Noble Red Man" - is actually based on a Ghost! In 1943, a Chicago, Illinois Newspaper Reporter, on his way to Butte, Montana for a story. The train traveled the "Old Route", once wide open Prairie and the wandering, often hostile Native Americans. As the weary Reporter gazed through the train window, he noticed a "swirling haze" seemingly following the train at breakneck speed. The haze began to slowly form into a clear and distinct shape of a "Man riding bareback on horse".

As he looked more, the "Rider" began to resembled a 19th Century Native American Warrior, in full regalia. The "Warrior" seemed oblivious to the "Iron Horse" (Train), and continued to ride along at an "otherworldly" speed. Soon. The image slowly faded back to haze and then into nothingness. The Reporter later published his story. Later, when viewing some old Prints by Artist Frederic Remington in a book, The Newspaper Reporter was chilled to pick out the very SAME Native American, galloping on the exact horse he saw from the Train. Sketched from life 1888, in and around the SAME area that "he" was seen racing the Train. Active imagination, hallucination or encounter out of time.