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Charles M. Russell: The Storyteller's Art
Charles M Russell The Storyteller's Art Author:Rafael Christy Well known for his sketches, paintings, and sculptures of the Old West, Charles M. Russell (18641926) was also an accomplished author in the humorous genre known as "local color." Raphael Cristy sorts Russells writings into four general categories: serious Indian stories, men encountering wildlife, cattle range characters, and ninete... more »enth-century westerners facing twentieth-century challenges. Russells art is often misinterpreted as mere longing for a fading open-range west, but his writings tell a different story. Cristy shows how Russell amused his peers with stories that also delivered sharp observations of Euro-American suppression of Indians and humorous treatment of wilderness and range issues plus the emergence of women and urbanization as bewildering agents of change in the modern West.« less