Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1923-11-25 | Page 22 | Obscure Cowboy Wins Fame with His Brush

OBSCURE COWBOY WINS TINS I I FAME WITH HIS BRUSH i t f 1 s a ai i P v a r t ti i u r tai e ef f sk iVED a aH H SINGLE 3 H F NA 5 BEEN A 1 ll L RUSSIL RUSSEL By BT tEA Service MISSOULA Mont Nov A 24 24 A cowboy Out of ot the obscurity of ot a Mon Mon- Montana Montana tana prairie rises Charles M AL f Russell Rus- Rus se sell I a ft rider of ot the tho range to emi emi- eminent nent position In the tho art ort world orld as asa asa a painter of ot frontier life lite The storY of ot this man v who oho ho was as w found wandering over oer the prairie 42 years ago hungry and alone is b isas 1 as IS striking and an as spectacular as us hIs bli one of ot which has been purchased by tho the Prince of ot Wales Wale for tor or The Duke Duko ot of Connaught also has hILS bought one as has lias a a California millionaire who paid to for tor Mr Russells Russell's The Tho Salute to the Robe Trade FINDS rINDS mil 1 lID More than years ears cars ago Jal e Hoo Hoover er known then as ns one ot of o the best hunters In the tho Montana i territory came clIme upon a 11 year old boy seated beside a 0 B campfire In li eastern Montana What re you doln loin here 7 asked Hoover Campin replied the tho youth I Campin hell Wheres Where's you our grub 7 Aint got Any Then come with me m directed the trapper Ive Ive I've got grub and a 0 a camp D a a short ways from hero Ive I've got lots of ot elk meat and It will feel teel pretty good In that empty belly ot of yours Without a 0 word the youth arose put out his bis tire fire and followed his hi new found friend and thus Charles Marlon Marion Russell found a 0 real home In the west and became a s citizen of ot Montana i FIRST In Hoovers Hoover's cabin Russell began hi his paintings Ho had bad only school I water wat r colors and his work wa was 88 crude He Ha did his painting at U ese oe ning after his days day's work was done I and ho did It tor for the tho tun fun he ho got t out of ot It R Russell was born In Bt St Louis Lout March 19 1865 1868 He hated the tho city and and was delighted when his hie hi parents removed to the country countr country to ti II live vo Ha lie was wag as dov downcast again Yo who when hen they returned to St Louis and ho he heran ran away from home SELI SELI SELF lie If Is a 0 taught self artist artist- artist an ox- ox example ample of ot genius de developed eloped through pen perseverance rance and lovo ot of t his theme thOme HI Ills His first tint picture to bring him na- na national national prominence was ws The Last of o a 0 title which has become word a byword byword In Montana Montono It depicts a lone cow about to die ot dl-ot ot of hunger and exposure and a 0 coy coy- coyote coyote coyote ote waiting tor for her hor to drop It represents the last of ot head ot of cattle which perished In a series I ot blizzards ards which struck eastern Montan In the eighties I hen hen he ho was as just beginning beginnIng- to get recognition ho he met Nancyi Nancy I Cooper then 17 11 Both Bolh were 11 lising Ing at Cascade Mont and Miss Misa Cooper bacame his nurse when hen ho he was ta- ta taI taken taken ta taken ken III They w ero married as soon as ho he reco recovered ered I He had to borrow 10 hilt half of which he ho paid to tho the minister and halt half to set up drinks for tor tho the bols bo A picture ot of tho the Northwest Mounted Police rolice was wal purchased some somo time timo ago ogo tor for the hall halls halla ot of o Parliament In S Canada The Tho Prince of ot Wales on a II visit saw the picture and WIsed 0 de- de desire desire sire for tor one like It The Canadian government then arranged to pur- pur purchase purchase chase When hen Law Dulls the Edge ot of Chance tor for v which the prince paid 10 00 oo