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Show Out of the western frontier came the need to create familiar, traditional objects from available materials. This basic desire to civilize resulted in a tradition of making objects which contrast the natural world with the civilized world, available materials with accepted form. From the meshing of these two grew a material culture that relied heavily on a romantic view of both the frontier experience and the American Indian. Fig. 25 Charles Schaefermeyer seated in chair. Vernal. Photograph. Early 1900s. Collection of Henry Schaefermeyer, Vernal. Blacksmith and cowboy, Charles Schaefermeyer built this chair while working at the Carry Ranch in Hayden, Colorado. In 1917 he brought it by covered wagon to his new home near Vernal, Utah-a journey of one hundred twenty miles that took eight days. |