AWARDS

Grizzly Fire Screen received the Best  Artist In Metal-Working at the 1998  Western Design Conference in Cody, Wyoming.

 

BOOKS featurIng Prairie Elk Forge

The Old Faithful Inn, Crown Jewel of National Park Lodges –  Karen Wildung Reinhardt and Jeff Henry, Roche Jaune Pictures, Inc. 2004 “George Ainslie – Today’s Blacksmith” Page 131

2000 Western Design Conference Sourcebook – Cody, Wyoming page 145

Rocky Mountain Home – Elizabeth Claire Flood, Gibbs Smith Publisher 1996 Dustcover Firescreen  Firescreen
- page 70 Door Hardware - page 108 Door Hardware - page 128

Great Lodges of The West – Christine Barnes, W. W. West Publishers 1997 Firescreen at The Old Faithful Inn
– page 19

The Book of Buckskinning VI – Rebel Publishing Company 1992 Pages 163; 169; 170

The Mountain Men – George Laycock, Outdoor Life  Books, Stackpole 1988

 

Jobs Of Special Note

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyoming

OLD FAITHFUL INN
Exterior Door Hardware
Dinner Reservation Desk
Dining Room Fireplace Screen
Exterior Lantern Reproductions
Main Fireplace Tool Reproductions
Front Step Lanterns

OLD FAITHFUL LODGE
Foyer Lantern with Park Wildlife
Two Major Fire Screens with Wildlife Motif

SNOW LODGE HOTEL
Exterior Door Hardware
Exterior Lantern Wall Sconces
Interior Decorative Strapping
Firehole Bar, Back Bar, and Sign
Firehole Lounge Fire Screen
Dining Room Fire Screen
Main Lobby Fire Screen
Fireplace Surround
Registration Desk Hardware

GENERAL STORES
Upper and Lower Old Faithful & Fishing Bridge Stores   
Numerous Chandeliers
Cutthroat Trout Fire Screen
Buffalo and Geyser Fire Screen
Miscellaneous Sign Packages
Evergreen and Rawhide Shade Wall Sconces

ROCKWELL MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART, Corning, NY
Bear Wall Sconces for Conference Room

BUFFALO BILL HISTORIC CENTER, Draper Museum, Cody, WY
Twenty iron bollard surrounds depicting wildlife from
the greater Yellowstone ecosystem 

FORT UNION NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE, Williston, ND
Over 5000 pieces of hardware, including the weather vanes,
all reproduced from examples unearthed during the
archaeological dig on site

BENT’S OLD FORT NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE, La Junta, CO
Many articles of hardware, chandeliers, beaver traps and other
tools of the period

MUSEUM OF THE GREAT PLAINS – Lawton, OK
Hardware and furbearer traps from the fur trade period

THERE ARE MANY OTHER JOBS IN MY FILES, BUT PRIVATE CLIENT CONFIDENTIALITY IS PARAMOUNT AT PRAIRIE ELK FORGE. DUE TO THIS, I HAVE MADE REFERENCE TO ONLY PUBLIC PROJECTS.