Charles M. Russell : the storyteller's art / Raphael James Cristy ; with a foreword by B. Byron Price.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cristy, Raphael.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Russell, Charles M. (Charles Marion), 1864-1926--Writing skill.

Russell, Charles M.

Russell, Charles M. (Charles Marion), 1864-1926.

Western stories--History and criticism.

Western stories.

Literature and history--West (U.S.).

Literature and history.

Storytelling--West (U.S.).

Storytelling.

Local color in literature.

West (U.S.)--In literature.

West (U.S.).

Physical Description:

xx, 347 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2004]

Summary:

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 color." 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 urbanization as bewildering agents of change in the modern West.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-340) and index.

ISBN:

0826332846

OCLC:

55109021