A young teen, in the 1880s, heads west to Montana to try his hand at cowboying. His passion for adventure converts him to the wilds of the Bonanza State. Before long, he trades his quirt for a paintbrush and goes on to create more than 4,000 works of art. His name is Charles M. Russell. Another young teen, about 40 years later, spends his days surveying the north rim of Arizona’s Grand Canyon and his nights reading from the volumes on Southwest Indians published by the Smithsonian Institu


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