This first comprehensive biography of Charles M. Russell
examines the colorful life and times of Montana's famed Cowboy
Artist. Born to an affluent St. Louis family in 1864, young Russell
read thrilling tales of the West and filled sketchbooks with
imagined frontier scenes. At sixteen he left home and headed west
to become a cowboy. In Montana Territory he consorted with
cowpunchers, Indians, preachers, saloon keepers, and prostitutes,
while celebrating the waning American frontier's glory days in some
4,000 paintings, watercolors, drawings, and sculptures. Before his
death in 1926, Russell saw the world change dramatically, and the
West he loved passed into legend. By then he was revered as one of
the country's ranking Western artist with works displayed in the
finest galleries, his romantic vision of the Old West forever
shaping our own.
Taliaferro reveals the man behind the myth in his multifaceted
complexity: extraordinarily gifted, self-effacing, charming,
mischievous, and playful, a friend to rough frontier denizens and
Hollywood stars alike. The author also explores Russell's
controversial partnership with his fiery young wife, Nancy, whose
ambition and business savvy helped establish Russell as one of
America's most popular artists.
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