End of the Trail (Wisconsin)

End of the Trail
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Shaler Park Waupun, Wisconsin
NRHP Reference #	80000136
Added to NRHP	August 29, 1980

The End of the Trail is a sculpture depicting an American Indian warrior slumped over on his horse, located in Waupun, Wisconsin, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.^[1]

History

The statue was sculpted by James Earle Fraser after it was commissioned by Clarence Shaler as a tribute to the Native Americans.^[2] It is a copy cast in bronze of a plaster statue by Fraser that gained notoriety at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition. The original was moved from Visalia, California to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1968, where it was restored and is now on display at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. The City of Visalia received a bronze replica as a replacement.

A smaller bronze copy of the statue is on the campus of Winona State University in Fraser's home town, Winona, Minnesota.

A painting of the statue's image appeared on the original cover of the 1971 album Surf's Up by the Beach Boys.

References

1. "End of the Trail". Landmark Hunter.com. Retrieved 2012-02-15.
2. "End of the Trail - Waupun, WI". Waymarking.com. Retrieved 2012-02-15.