Man on horse with arrow through his thigh, holding a revolver looking down on Native American who has been wounded lying on grass.
“The Last War-Whoop,” a companion to “The Pursuit”, shows the conclusion to a dramatic chase. The Native American warrior, who has now been shot and knocked from his horse, looks up at the frontiersman, still mounted though his leg has been pierced by an arrow. Both prints were unusual for Tait. Because the artist had no direct observation of members of Native American tribes, he often portrayed Native Americans at a distance, with little detail. Here, Tait has placed the Native American in the foreground and provided more detail than usual, including a painted face and decorated buckskin clothes. The anxiety of the scene is heightened by the men in the background, the swirling clouds in the sky and the anxious look on the Native American’s horse. The title of the print indicates that the frontiersman has been victorious in the battle.