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One of German-born American artist Albert Bierstadt's most famous scenes, reproducing the last of his large Western panoramas and his most important late painting, created for the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris. He chose as his subject the wholesale destruction of the once-plentiful herds of buffalo, which by this time had been reduced to a few hundred animals still roaming the plains. Bierstadt’s painting is a romantic vision of an earlier era when the buffalo were still plentiful; the Indians roamed freely; and without guns, the two were evenly matched in combat. The location of the scene is believed to be the foot of the Wind River Mountains in Sweetwater County, Wyoming.