A Collection of Paintings Will Bring Us Back to the Wild Era of Montana

In the vast Judith River Valley, where cattle roamed free, and hustlers, gamblers, gold diggers, and other characters abounded, Charlie Russell was a real legend. Quick guns and fast horses were, in reality, a daily necessity to survive among the cunning Indians and other surprises of that bygone age. Helena’s Cosmopolitan Hotel, where Madam Chicago Jo Hensley ran a tight ship upstairs, is included.
 
Ride along with Charlie on a tumultuous cattle drive with the guys to Miles City’s railhead, where everyday saloon life made WWI resemble a church choir practice.
 
It all started in 1879, when Charlie, at the tender age of 15, persuaded his multimillionaire father to let him abandon the family empire in St. Louis and travel west. He became so enamored with the West that he started to paint it. His photographs were not ordinary. They all had a lot of zeal, sass, and action.
 
He didn’t simply paint a horse standing in the apple orchard. Charlie’s horses were jumping, riding, bucking off their rider, falling, and so forth. His works were bursting at the seams with activity. He was the first person west of the Mississippi River to use a Polaroid camera. He didn’t simply paint a horse standing in the apple orchard. Charlie’s horses were jumping, riding, bucking off their rider, falling down, and so forth. His works were bursting at the seams with activity.
 
In fact, he was the first person west of the Mississippi River to use a Polaroid camera. Initially, he simply gave away his paintings to someone who wanted them. If anyone insisted on paying for one, he reasoned that because he was paid a dollar a day to punch cows, a painting that took five days to complete could be worth five dollars. His majors are now worth more than $5 million each.
 
“Charlie, why don’t you paint about 20 pictures and we’ll get on a train for New York and put on a show,” his wife suggested one day. They were successful. They then traveled to London. After that, the rest is history. Charlie was the ultimate hero and grandmaster of all Western art, as this collection, which contains more than 100 of his masterpieces, demonstrates.
 
Charlie, though, was a better storyteller than he was a painter. Furthermore, author George Papa is the first writer in the world to combine the standard prose style with that of a feature film movie script, capturing the effect of reading a movie script.
 
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Montana: As Lived and Painted by Charles Russell
Author: George M. Papa
Publisher: Your Online Publicist
Published Date: April 2021
Book Genre: Religion & Spirituality
 
About the Author:
George M. Papa (1943 - ) was born in Chicago during WWII, being the oldest child of a Catholic, Croatian, sailor father and a devout many-generation Mormon mother from Northern Arizona, who had graduated from Brigham Young University. Two weeks after his birth, George and his Mother moved to Snowflake, Arizona to live with her parents and to wait out the war. However, the month before George was born, his father converted to Mormonism so George would not be born a half breed. After the war, George’s parents settled in Northern Arizona where four more sons were born.

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