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- catalog abstract "Russell is known as the Cowboy Artist who saw it all and got it right. A rich kid from St. Louis, he left home in 1880 to join the big roundups in Montana, where he mixed with cowpunchers, Indians, preachers, and prostitutes. He memorized their stories and sketched their lives and, after the death of his rival Frederic Remington, became the foremost documentarian of the closing of the frontier. Before he was through, his masterpieces hung in America's finest art galleries and stateliest mansions. His paintings have appeared on three postage stamps, and his buffalo-skull logo still appears on every Montana license plate. In this, the first full-scale biography of Montana's favorite icon, John Taliaferro deepens and humanizes Russell's remarkable achievements. For once, the truth outdoes the legend. This is also the story of a nation in transition. Russell saw buffalo give way to cattle, horses give way to cars. He survived stampedes, blizzards, and firewater, only to face panics, jazz, and Prohibition. He blamed homesteaders, then robber barons, for ruining his West, but over time they became his most devoted friends and patrons. In his final years he was adopted by William S. Hart, Will Rogers, and Hollywood directors, and had a say in how the West would be immortalized on the silver screen. Charles M. Russell is one of America's most charismatic and complex icons. At last, here is a portrait that does him justice.".
- catalog contributor b9658718.
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Russell is known as the Cowboy Artist who saw it all and got it right. A rich kid from St. Louis, he left home in 1880 to join the big roundups in Montana, where he mixed with cowpunchers, Indians, preachers, and prostitutes. He memorized their stories and sketched their lives and, after the death of his rival Frederic Remington, became the foremost documentarian of the closing of the frontier. Before he was through, his masterpieces hung in America's finest art galleries and stateliest mansions. His paintings have appeared on three postage stamps, and his buffalo-skull logo still appears on every Montana license plate. In this, the first full-scale biography of Montana's favorite icon, John Taliaferro deepens and humanizes Russell's remarkable achievements. For once, the truth outdoes the legend. This is also the story of a nation in transition. Russell saw buffalo give way to cattle, horses give way to cars. He survived stampedes, blizzards, and firewater, only to face panics, jazz, and Prohibition. He blamed homesteaders, then robber barons, for ruining his West, but over time they became his most devoted friends and patrons. In his final years he was adopted by William S. Hart, Will Rogers, and Hollywood directors, and had a say in how the West would be immortalized on the silver screen. Charles M. Russell is one of America's most charismatic and complex icons. At last, here is a portrait that does him justice.".
- catalog description "St. Louis -- Montana -- "Last of Five Thousand" -- Canada and Back -- The White City -- Nancy -- Great Falls -- Tall Tepees -- Bull Head and Buffalo -- "The West That Has Passed" -- Campfire Star -- California -- Trail's End.".
- catalog extent "xi, 318 p., [16] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0316831905".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boston : Little, Brown,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "709/.2 B 20".
- catalog subject "Artists United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "N6537.R88 T36 1996".
- catalog subject "Russell, Charles M. (Charles Marion), 1864-1926.".
- catalog tableOfContents "St. Louis -- Montana -- "Last of Five Thousand" -- Canada and Back -- The White City -- Nancy -- Great Falls -- Tall Tepees -- Bull Head and Buffalo -- "The West That Has Passed" -- Campfire Star -- California -- Trail's End.".
- catalog title "Charles M. Russell : the life and legend of America's cowboy artist / John Taliaferro.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".