Montana, as Lived and Painted by Charles Russell

Charlie Russell was a true legend in the vast Judith River Valley where cattle roamed without fences and hustlers, gamblers, gold diggers and other characters abounded. Indeed, fast guns and faster horses were an everyday necessity to survive among the crafty Indians and all the other surprises of that bygone era. Included is Helena’s Cosmopolitan Hotel, where Madam Chicago Jo Hensley ran a real tight ship upstairs. Ride with Charlie on a most eventful cattle drive with the guys to the railhead at Miles City, where everyday saloon life made WWI look like a church choir practice.

It all began in 1879, when Charlie finally prevailed upon his multimillionaire father to allow him to leave the family empire in St. Louis, to go west, at the tender age of 15. Charlie never looked back. He loved the West so much he began to draw pictures. His were not ordinary pictures. They all had enormous spark, dash and action. He did not just paint a horse standing out under the apple tree. Oh no, Charlie’s horses were jumping, running, bucking off their rider, falling down, etc. His paintings burst with action. In reality he was the first Polaroid camera west of the Mississippi River.

At first, he just gave his paintings away to anyone who liked them. If someone insisted on paying for one, he felt that since he got paid a dollar a day to punch cows, if it took five days to paint Indians on the warpath, then that painting should be worth five bucks. Today, his majors are worth over $5 million each.

One day his wife said, “Charlie, why don’t you paint about 20 pictures, and we’ll get on a train for New York and put on a show.” They did. Then they went to London. The rest is history. Charlie was the supreme icon and grandmaster of all western art, which is fully exemplified in this book, which features more than 100 of his masterpieces.

However, as good a painter as he was, Charlie was a better storyteller. In addition, author George Papa is the first-in-the-world writer to merge the regular prose format with that of a feature film movie script, which captures the effect of reading a movie

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Montana: As Lived and Painted by Charles Russell
Author: George M. Papa
Publisher: Your Online Publicist
Published Date: April 2021
Book Genre: Religion & Spirituality


About the Author:
George M. Papa (1943 - ) was born in Chicago during WWII, being the oldest child of a Catholic, Croatian, sailor father and a devout many-generation Mormon mother from Northern Arizona, who had graduated from Brigham Young University. Two weeks after his birth, George and his Mother moved to Snowflake, Arizona to live with her parents and to wait out the war. However, the month before George was born, his father converted to Mormonism so George would not be born a half breed. After the war, George’s parents settled in Northern Arizona where four more sons were born.

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