Charles Marion Russell: Smokin' 'Em Out

'Russell writes easily, and in the vernacular. He tells of Indians and Indian fighters, buffalo hunts, bad men, wolves, wild horses, tough hotels, drinking customs, and hard-riding cowboys...[He] lived long enough in the West to acquire a vast amount of information and lore, and he has left enough from his ...more

Charles M. Russell is our most beloved artist of the American West. Through his paintings, sketches, sculpture, illustrated letters, and storytelling, he left an unequalled legacy of images and memories of the Old West. This beautiful volume, accompanied by a DVD, is the first comprehensive description and documentation of Russell's ...more

From reviews of the first edition: "Richly illustrated . . . this handsome volume presents the rugged beauty and rowdy spirit of life on the frontier, as captured by two master painters." —Art Gallery International ". . . large color plates beautifully reproduce dashing, romantic scenes of frontier life created ...more

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 color." Raphael Cristy sorts Russell’s writings into four general categories: serious Indian stories, men encountering wildlife, cattle range characters, and nineteenth-century westerners ...more

Showcased in this lavishly illustrated book is a fascinating overview of the artists' careers, along with full-color reproductions of the work of Remington and Russell and specially commissioned biographies and artistic interpretations. ...more

A fascinating biography brings to life the man behind the cowboy artist--a wrangler during the glory years of the open range and the lover of a fiery woman half his age--and his rise to fame with the help of the robber barons he despised. ...more