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>The Rescue depicts a confrontation between a bellicose American Indian warrior and a pioneer family. At the left rear of the group, a crouching pioneer woman desperately clasps a small child. To the front, an outsized frontiersman forcibly prevents a tomahawk-wielding Indian from brutally murdering his family.
>The heroic rescuer, however, refrains from injuring his adversary and displays a total mastery of the situation. The vengeful Indian warrior is rendered impotent and childlike. To the right, the family dog looks on.
>The Rescue was displayed to the right of the large staircase of the east façade of the U.S. Capitol. In 1939, a joint resolution submitted to—but not passed by—the U.S. House of Representatives recommended that The Rescue be "...ground into dust, and scattered to the four winds, that no more remembrance may be perpetuated of our barbaric past, and that it may not be a constant reminder to our American Indian citizens…"
>In 1958, it was removed from the east façade in preparation for the building's extension. They were placed in storage and—without public discussion—never restored.
>In 1976, a crane accidentally dropped The Rescue while moving it to a new Smithsonian storage area in Maryland, thus reducing it to several fragments.
>Only the family dog remained intact
