Bodie Watson Original Artwork

18 X 26.5 Oil
“The Bottoms seems to make men individual. I suppose it’s the independent life most people live.”
Bodie was something of a legend in the Snake River Bottoms. His father was renowned in the region as a cantankerous man. Bodie had grown up tough just to survive at home, much less in the West. He too was a member of the War Bonnet Outfit. He was most known for having lassoed a grizzly on the plains fifteen miles outside of Blackfoot, Idaho. It was said he was such a good rider that he never had to cinch the rope on the bear’s neck until he reached town. Minerva drew a sketch of this in her book, “Drowned Memories.”
The painting itself, like the ones of Dick Driscoll, is an important painting of a known cowboy. Bodie rides his horse and carries his six-gun in its holster. The object in his hand could be some kind of self-fashioned quirt (as it seems longer than most), but this is unknown. This portrait appears to be less complete than the one of Dick Driscoll.