Charles M. Russell The Storyteller's Art

Well known for his sketches, paintings, and sculptures of the Old West, Charles M Russell (1864-1926) was also an accomplished author in the humorous genre known as 'local colour'. Raphael Cristy sorts Russell's writings into four general categories: serious Indian stories, men encountering wildlife, cattle range characters, and nineteenth-century westerners facing twentieth-century challenges. Russell's 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 urbanisation as bewildering agents of change in the modern West.Christy, Raphael is the author of 'Charles M. Russell The Storyteller's Art', published 2004 under ISBN 9780826332844 and ISBN 0826332846.