Text Appearing Before Image: INDIAN HUNTER Text Appearing After Image: THE PROTEST Which won the gold medal for Mr. Djat the St. Louis Exposition THE WORK OF CYRUS E. DALLIN 413 He was then working in a mining camp,.sifting ore. One day the miners strucka bed of soft white clay, and young Dal-lin immediately improvised some toolsand set to work. He modeled twolife-size heads which were so admiredby the miners that they sent them to aFair in Salt Lake City. This was the beginning of a new lifefor the young aspiring artist. Twowealthy mining men in Utah saw theseclay heads and were so convinced of thegenius back of them that together theylaunched the young man on his artisiticcareer. They sent him to Boston,where he commenced study with Tru-man H. Bartlett, the sculptor, remain-ing with him for many months. For nine years the young artist re-mained in Boston, working conscien-tiously and untiringly, with many heart-aches and actual hardships, but goingforward in his profession at leaps andbounds. He had been studying but four yearswhen, to his astonishment
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