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The Keeper of the Plains may be a thirteen.4 metres (44 ft) Cor-Ten steel sculpture by Kiowa-Comanche creative person Blackbear Bosin. It sits at the confluence of the Arkansas and tiny Arkansas rivers in Wichita, Kansas. Close the bottom of the sculpture area unit multiple displays that describe the native tribes that wont to inhabit this space, moreover as many fireplace pits that generally light to illuminate the sculpture at midnight. The fireplace pits, that area unit called the Rings of fireplace, area unit lit manually for public safety and run in fifteen minute increments. They’re usually lit once an evening around nine pm throughout the summer and sunset throughout the winter.
The sculpture, commissioned by town and personal organizations to mark the us Bicentennial, was erected in 1974. It’s since become one in all Wichita’s most recognized and beloved symbols. A spring/summer 2006 project elevated the sculpture on a 30-foot rock headland thus it might be seen from farther away. A profile image of this sculpture contains the motif adopted by the twenty second Air provision Wing, a U.S. Air Force flying unit that is predicated at near McConnell Air Force Base. From 1993 through 2004, a picture of the sculpture, along side the words “Keeper of the Plains,” appeared on the tails of Boeing KC-135 air provision tankers appointed to the twenty second ARW.
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