Charles Marion Russell
(C.M. Russell)
(1864 - 1926)
Growing up in Missouri, Russell moved to the Montana Territory when he was sixteen. While working on a cattle ranch one of his small watercolors was sent to the owner who displayed it in a shop window in Helena. Soon he was receiving commissions for his work and eventually became a world-famous painter, illustrator and sculptor.
Bibliography
Indian Old-Man Stories: More Sparks from War Eagle’s Lodge-Fire (1920)
A collection of Native American myths, legends, and tales. Read online at archive.org.
Indian Why Stories: Sparks from War Eagle’s Lodge-Fire (1915)
A collection of Native American myths, legends and tales. Read online at archive.org.