Travel across Montana and discover the state through the life and art of the cowboy artist. Charles M. Russell was 16 when he first arrived in the...
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On the Trail of Charlie Russell
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Travel across Montana and discover the state through the life and art of the cowboy artist. Charles M. Russell was 16 when he first arrived in the...
The legendary Montana cowboy is well known for his cowboy art, but he was also quite funny and sometimes ribald (some would say scandalous!). Here...
Russell never wore a belt but wore the sash folded like one. Along with the bison skull, it became one of his distinctive trademarks. He began...
Artists’ interpretations of Western history, then and now.
Charlie Russell came to Montana in 1880 at the age of sixteen where he hired out on a sheep ranch. He later went to work for a former trapper Jake...