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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;PepperAnna, post: 3270118, member: 17332&quot;]If you read the article about The Wounded Indian, I can see why he might have been struggling with mental illness. From all that I have read about him, he really wanted to be a sculptor, but he never got the success or recognition he desired. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a quote I found:</p><p><br /></p><p>Because of a shortage of materials and lack of appreciation among Americans for idealized sculpture, Stephenson and other American sculptors in the pre-Civil War period struggled to earn a living. He wrote in 1853: ‘I do not complain; the way to make up for hard luck is to work the more industriously. I have never received a lesson from any one, nor a cent of money that the sweat of my brow did not earn. I have cut between six and seven hundred cameo likenesses, about two thousand fancy designs, and several busts and statues. (2)</p><p><br /></p><p>(2)&nbsp; Peter Stephenson possibly to Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee, January 1853, quoted in Lee, Familiar Sketches of Sculpture and Sculptors, 2 vols. (Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Co., 1854), 2: 193. For additional information on Stephenson, see The New-York Historical Society’s Dictionary of Artists in America, 1564-1860, s.v. ‘Stephenson, Peter.’[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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