| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 36.4

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Book Review

Charles M. Russell: The Storyteller's Art. By Raphael James Cristy. Foreword by B. Byron Price. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004. xx + 347 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $45.00.)

Charles M. Russell, the popular cowboy artist, is a shining star in the galaxy of the most influential interpreters of the American West. Unlike previous authors who have written about Russell (such as Harold McCracken, John Taliaferro, and Brian Dippie) who focused on his biography and his art, Raphael James Cristy analyzes Russell's selected writings within the context and traditions of American folk literature. In the introductory chapter, Cristy begins with a discussion of the historical significance of the artist's published stories and explicitly lays down the main theme and a summary of the book. In this context, the author needs to include a historiography of the western artist and briefly mention the social and economic conditions of nineteenth-century Montana, the state in which Russell lived since the early days of his career.

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