This virtuosic sculpture depicts four cowboys astride their galloping horses "shooting pistols and shouting," as Frederic Remington wrote, suggesting the bravado and energy that characterized the frontier way of life. One look at the horsemen reveals that they are not attacking or escaping from enemies, however, but rather immersed in drunken revelry. Remington wrote of the cowboy: "When he ‘turns loose' in town [he] does it in a thorough way. His animation vents itself in shrieks and yells, the firing of the revolver, and the mad gallop."

One of the most prominent artist-interpreters of the American West, Remington produced a large body of work in sculpture, illustration, painting, fiction, and nonfiction that popularized the cowboy as a national folk hero.

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