Charlie Russell showed off his newest painting at this year's C.M. Russell Art Auction. Impossible, you say?
The esteemed cowboy artist did so through the paintbrush of Andy Thomas of Carthage, Missouri, who created “Charlie Russell and His Characters” specifically for this year’s show and auction held in Great Falls, Montana, on March 12-15.
Thomas’s ingenious painting was the talk of the show. First, it was awarded the Jurors’ Best of Show. Then former Denver Broncos quarterbac

July 2008
In This Issue:
Western Books & Movies
- Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War
- Brides of the West (Fiction)
- Black Rock Cañon
- Burn English (Fiction)
- Virgin River (Fiction)
- Bud Ballew: Legendary Oklahoma Lawman (Nonfiction)
- A Few Good Horses (Nonfiction)
- Life of a Soldier on the Western Frontier (Nonfiction)
- Arc of the Medicine Line (Nonfiction)
- Inventing the Fiesta City (Nonfiction)
- Stricken Field: The Little bighorn Since 1876 (Nonfiction)
- Pat Green’s Dance Halls & Dreamers (Nonfiction)
- Close-Ups on the Outcasts
More In This Issue
- Recreating Indian-Inspired Adobes
- Modern Cowboys
- Big Bend Mystery Under the Sands
- The Kings of the Beaumont
- The Emperor’s Old Guns
- Run Out of Town On a Rail
- Horse Trading for a Better Guthrie
- Preservation: Let the Water Flow
- Mike Blakely
- Cattle Track Creations
- Speaking Horse
- NRA’s Cowboy Celebration
- Dodge City’s All-Stars
- Charlie Russell’s Newest Painting
- Diabetes in the Old West
- Forting Up On the Apache Trail
- Columbia, California
- Golly, What a Gully!
- I Will Kidnap No More Forever
- Trophy Hunting in Yellowstone
- Great Secrets of Our National Parks