The Scout (Kansas City, Missouri statue)

Statue in Missouri, United States

For other uses, see The Scout (disambiguation).

Half-size replica of *The Scout* in Seville, Spain.

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The Scout is a famous statue by Cyrus E. Dallin in Kansas City, Missouri. It is more than 10 feet (3.0 m) tall, and depicts a Sioux Indian on horseback surveying the landscape. The Scout was conceived by Dallin in 1910, and exhibited at the 1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, where it won a gold medal. On its way back east, the statue was installed on a temporary basis in Penn Valley Park. The statue proved so popular that US$15,000 (equivalent to about $452,000 in 2023) in nickels and dimes was raised to purchase it through a campaign called "The Kids of Kansas City". The statue was dedicated in 1922 as a permanent memorial to local Indian tribes. It is located east of Southwest Trafficway in Penn Valley Park, which is south of downtown Kansas City.

Several area features have been named after the iconic statue, such as Kansas City Scout, which is the Kansas City metropolitan area's electronic traffic alert system. The statue inspired the name of the National Hockey League's Kansas City Scouts and was featured on the team's logo.

A half-size replica was given by Kansas City to its sister-city, Seville, Spain in 1992.

References

Cole, Suzanne P.; Engle, Tim; Winkler, Eric (April 23, 2012). "50 things every Kansas Citian should know". The Kansas City Star. Kansas City, MO. Retrieved April 23, 2012.
Cole, Suzanne P. (December 26, 2010). "The Scout: Still looking out for KC". The Kansas City Star. Kansas City, MO. p. MG3.

v t e Cyrus Edwin Dallin
Sculptures	In Massachusetts Paul Revere (modeled 1885, cast 1940) A Signal of Peace (1890) Angel Moroni (1892) Brigham Young Monument (1893) The Medicine Man (1899) Protest of the Sioux (1904) The Picket (1905) Appeal to the Great Spirit (1908) The Scout (1910) The Call to Arms and An Incident at Gettysburg (1910) Menotomy Hunter (1911) Robbins Memorial Flagstaff (1913) Winfield Scott Hancock (1913) Anne Marbury Hutchinson (1915) Massasoit (1921, Plymouth, Mass.) Massasoit (Salt Lake City) Signing of the Mayflower Compact (1922) Boy and His Dog Sculpture (1923) Memory (Dallin) (1924) Passing of the Buffalo (1929)
Coins	Pilgrim Tercentenary half dollar
Homes and museums	Cyrus Dallin Art Museum Dallin House (birthplace) Taylor-Dallin House
Related	Archery at the 1904 Summer Olympics

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