When I entered graduate school at Colorado A&M College in the fall of 1954, my roommate hung a Charles M. Russell print on his wall: 1911’s Call of the Law. As I’ve learned, Russell liked to leave the outcome of a scene to the viewer’s imagination, and this one was no different—what did those two guys do and what was the aftermath? The stories Russell’s art awakened in my mind encouraged me to purchase two inexpensive framed Russell prints to hang on my wall the next school y


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