Charles M. Russell

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 forntier scenes. Before his death in 1926, Russell saw the world change dramatically, and the West he loved pass into legend. By then he was revered as one of the country's ranking western artists with works displayed in the finest galleries, his romantic vision of the Old West forever shaping our own.