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Charles M. Russell is probably the best but least-known of the great Western American artists. Completely self-taught, he spent most of his life in Great Falls, Montana (my home town), where he worked in a log cabin studio that once served as his first home in the city. Russell was born in St. Louis in 1864, and at the age of 16 left home for the ( Read more... )

Charles M. Russell. "The Kid Road Agent" (cover of Treasure State Magazine, December 18, 1909)


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