Born and raised in Utah territory, Dallin was studying in Paris by 1888-90 and cast his first large bronze, Signal of Peace (now in Chicago’s Lincoln Park) at the Gruet foundry.

From the exhibition:Frontier to Foundry: the Making of Small Bronze Sculpture in the Gilcrease Collection, December 2014 - March 2015.
Ann Boulton Young, Associate Conservator for the Gilcrease Museum, 2014.