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Cowboy Artist Charlie Russell and Glacier National Park examines the intimate relationship artist Charlie Russell, and his wife, Nancy Russell, had with Glacier National Park for over twenty years in the early 1900s. At Bull Head Lodge, their Apgar summer home on Lake McDonald, Charlie Russell painted and sculpted, producing some of his most famous works, including major works illustrating Glacier National Park. The Russells also entertained numerous important figures in the art and literary worlds during their summers in the park, and these individuals and their relationships with the Russells are examined. The book also describes park excursions undertaken by Charlie and Nancy Russell designed to support tourism growth as well as to encourage sales of Charlie's art. Numerous examples of Charlie's art are presented in the book, and photographs of the Bull Head Lodge area as well as the park excursions are supplemented by modern photos. These modern photos, taken by the author, illustrate landscape changes that have occurred in the park over the 100-year period since the Russells were among the most significant celebrities to ever call Glacier National Park home.

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Author David R. Butler retired to Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 2019. He was a geography professor for thirty-seven years, the last twenty-two of those at Texas State University, where he was the Texas State University System Regents' Professor of Geography. He was a red bus ""Gearjammer"" in Glacier Park during his college days in the summers of 1973 and 1974 and has conducted research there since 1975. He has written several books on Glacier National Park, including Fonthill's The Civilian Conservation Corps in Glacier National Park, Montana; Early Photographers of Glacier National Park; Pioneering Women of Glacier National Park; and Cowboy Artist Charlie Russell and Glacier National Park; and Arcadia Publishing's Fire Lookouts of Glacier National Park.

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