Charles M. Russell: The Storyteller's Art
- ISBN-10
- 0826332846
- ISBN-13
- 9780826332844
- Series
- Charles M. Russell
- Category
- Literary Criticism / General
- Pages
- 347
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press
- Author
- Raphael Cristy
Description
Well known for his sketches, paintings, and sculptures of the Old West, Charles M Russell (1864-1926) was also an accomplished author in the humorous genre known as 'local colour'. Raphael Cristy sorts Russell's writings into four general categories: serious Indian stories, men encountering wildlife, cattle range characters, and nineteenth-century westerners facing twentieth-century challenges. Russell's art is often misinterpreted as mere longing for a fading open-range west, but his writings tell a different story. Cristy shows how Russell amused his peers with stories that also delivered sharp observations of Euro-American suppression of Indians and humorous treatment of wilderness and range issues plus the emergence of women and urbanisation as bewildering agents of change in the modern West.
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Other editions
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- 2014
- 294 pages
- Paperback
- Charles M. Russell Center Seri
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- 2008
- 213 pages
- Paperback
- Mountain Press Publishing Company
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