The production of prints after Remington’s paintings during the artist’s lifetime was strictly a commercial venture by his publishers. Remington himself had very little influence over which paintings would be reproduced as prints. The selection instead was based on what people liked enough to purchase and hang in their homes. These reproductions cost between ten cents and two dollars; in contrast, the average price for a Remington painting at the time was two thousand dollars. This black and white print of Remington’s A Dash for the Timber was first published in 1890. The painting had been done as a private commission, but it was very popular with the public when it was exhibited at the National Academy in the previous year. At that time, color lithography was a relatively involved process, and the photographic color halftone process had not yet been perfected. As a result, the publishers of the early Remington prints produced them in sepia or black and white. This print was one of the few Remington prints to be published without an accompanying caption or text. The reproduction of A Dash for the Timber was first published by the Gravure Etching Company as a photoengraving; in 1898, it was again published by the A.W. Elson Company in Boston as a sepia print. Finally, in 1899 it was published as a black and white platinum print by the R.H. Russell Company of New York.