Charles M. Russell: The Life and Legend of America's Cowboy Artist

by John Taliaferro

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080613495X
• ISBN13: 9780806134956
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"