Charles M. Russell. The Storyteller's Art

RAPHAEL JAMES CRISTY

Publication: University of New Mexico Press, 2004, Albuquerque

First edition. 8vo. Signed and dated by the author on the half title page. Laid in to this copy is a color bookmark signed in ink on the back by the author, along with a copy of the author's business card. Bright red cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, tan front and rear endpapers, xx, 347 pp., foreword, preface, acknowledgments, introduction, illustrated with 32 color and 112 black & white drawings, portraits, notes, selected bibliography, index. Foreword by B. Byron Price. The author 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.

As new, unread copy in dust jacket.