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Devil Herd
by Dale "Doc" Hayes
Riders On The Rough String
by Jeff Streeby
The Corral
by
T. J.
Casey
The Lord's Creation
by Dave P. Fisher
Requiem & Home Place by Roger
Traweek
The
Big Die-Up by Mike Puhallo
Sixteen Horses
by Van Criddle
Charlie Russell
by
Rod Nichols
by
Seein'
Santa by Jane
Morton
Charlie Russell's Trail
by Mike Puhallo
Races With Grizzlies
by
Verlin Pitt
Cook's Swag Of Do's And Don'ts
by
Merve Webster
Obligations by
Michael Whitaker
Angels A-Hossback
by
Brian Brannon
Tattered And
Torn by
Harvey Derrick & Shelley
Ann Richter
Wooly
'N Wild Flowers of the West
by Catherine Lilbit Devine
I Rode With
Custer
by
Harold Miller
Charlie Russell's
Stagecoach by
Bette Wolf Duncan
ART OF CHARLES M. RUSSELL
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ART OF CHARLES M. RUSSELL
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ABOUT THE COUNTRY THAT
CHARLIE RUSSELL PAINTED
Poems by
webmaster...Bette Wolf Duncan
A Dying Cowboy's Prayer
Black Sunday
It Cost Me Mary Lou
Makin' Do
My Pony's Feet
Shaney Ridge
5000 Minus One
The Mountain Man
He'll Make A Cowboy Yet
Wacobelle's
Political
Commentary
About The
Author
and Webmaster, Bette Wolf Duncan
Credits and Links to Web
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1864 - 1926 |
Charles M. Russell was born and
raised in St. Louis, Missouri. It would be impossible to
overestimate the effect of books on his development.
The Cooper novels were
sacred to him as well as the dime novels portraying the
so-called Wild West. Charlie insisted he never would
have learned to read if it were not for these "yaller-back
novels". His schooldays in St. Louis were unhappy. While he may have
explored the dime novels, he did not like to study out
of books. Instead he passed his time to the annoyance of
his teachers, by sketching in the margins of his school
learners and looking out of the windows. His family was
prosperous and they were prominent. They tried
unsuccessfully to change him. When they failed, they
sent him for a brief period of time to a military school
in Vermont.
He proved resistant to education and his family
finally gave in. They let him go to Montana to pit his
romantic visions of the West against the mundane
realities. Charlie received a rude awakening in his
quest to become a Westerner. His first job was as a
sheepherder; and cowboys would not associate with
sheepherders. Charlie did not long tolerate his
assignment to, what the cowboys considered, the lower
caste. He soon drifted into the company of a hunter and
mountain man, Jake Hoover. He lived with Hoover for
about two years and learned to shift for himself in
rough country. Russell showed up one morning at the camp
of Horace Brewster, boss of a cattle outfit that
operated in the Judith basin. He had 50 cents in his
pocket and looked like he needed a job. He got one; he
was hired as horse wrangler. Much to Brewster's
surprise, Charlie got the hang of nighthawking quickly;
and he nighthawked for the next eleven years. He worked
the camp roundups in spring and summer and the beef
roundup for shipment in the fall.
While there were those who found fault with
Charlie's riding and roping, no one had a bad word to
say about his congenial personality. He was considered
by Horace Brewster to be "the most popular kid on the
range". He was down-to-earth person and considered to be
honest, hard working, and fun loving. Russell did not
intend to be an artist, although he sketched or painted
on most occasions when he was not actually working. He
began to realize that the Old West that he knew and
loved was about to flicker out. He began to devote most
of his time to capturing the roundups, cattle drives,
the open range, Indian camps, campfires and hunting
trips on canvas and in sculptures. Around 1891,
Russell's work began to be noticed when his painting
"The Last of the 5000, Waiting For
The Chinook" was printed on a postcard and
sold across the country. (This painting is featured on
"5000 Minus One".) |
Bette Wolf Duncan was born and
raised in southeastern Montana.
She is the granddaughter of Montana
homesteaders, and the
great-granddaughter of some of the
earliest settlers in North Dakota's
Red River Valley. Her late husband's
grandfather was one of the very
early ranchers in eastern Montana.
Bette and her late husband were
involved in a cattle operation in
southern Iowa, near the Missouri
border during the 1980s.
She had been writing Western poetry
for decades
when, a
couple of years back,
she came
to a realization that she would be
well-advised to actively participate
in cowboy poetry gatherings.
She did! She enjoyed it immensely,
and this CD, The Prairie Poet, is
the culmination of that effort.
This CD includes:
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The Rancher's New Computer
The Buzzard Named Boomer
The Sweat Belongs to Me
Adrenalin High
He'll Make a Cowboy Yet
Shaney Ridge
The Broken Hearted House
Muddy Water
The Men From Way Out West
The Blank Out Blues
A Dying Cowboy's Prayer
The Gold Rush Widow
5000 Minus One
Tex Lafitte
The Bull That Brought Him
Down
Rainbows on the Brain
Out in the Out
CD available for $17
postpaid from:
Bette Wolf Duncan
1755 S.E. 108th
Street
Runnells, Iowa 50237
wacobelle@msn.com
(515) 966 2461
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Dakota
by Bette Duncan
The Louisiana Territory, purchased
for less than 5¢ an acre, was one of
Thomas Jefferson's greatest
contributions to his country. It
doubled the size of the United
States literally overnight, without
a war or the loss of a single
American life.
Dakota
presents a bird’s eye
view of the transition of a segment of the Louisiana
Purchase into the states of Montana, North Dakota, and
Wyoming. Dakota offers historical data meshed with
Western poetry, with each one of the book’s twenty-three
poems contributing a relevant insight. Topics covered
include subjects ranging from the Civil War in Montana, to
the "Big Die-Up"of 1886-1887, to the myth and reality of the
American West, to the end of the homesteading era. According
to the author, Dakota is more than a collection of
Western verse- it is a raft with twenty-three supporting
logs that has skimmed o’er the river of Western history.
Dakota paints a picture of the real west and some of its
magnificent people.
The author,
Bette Wolf Duncan, was
born and raised in southeastern Montana. She is the
granddaughter of Montana homesteaders, and the
great-granddaughter of some of the earliest settlers in
North Dakota’s Red River Valley. Her late husband’s
grandfather was one of the early ranchers in eastern
Montana.
Learn Western
history through vivid details meshed
with poetry!
ORDER A COPY NOW!
ISBN 13
(TP): 978-1-4568-5365-5
ISBN 13 (HB): 978-1-4568-5366-2
ISBN 13 (eBook):
978-1-4568-5367-9
Xlibris
or contact the
author:
Bette Wolf
Duncan
1755 S.E. 108th Street: Runnells, Iowa
50237
Tel. 1-515-966-2461
email -
wacobelle@msn.com
Earlier books of
Bette Wolf
Duncan
Russell Country
is an echo of the stories
 I
heard as a granddaughter of early Montana and
North Dakota pioneers. These poems contain
memories of a time when the great buffalo herds
still thundered through the valleys, when
Cheyenne and Crow still camped around the
Yellowstone River, when mountain men and
cowboys, prospectors and miners, rustlers and
vigilantes still populated Russell Country. Many
of the poems are true accounts of events in the
lives of Emma and Caleb Duncan (Grandparents of
the author's late husband, Bill Duncan.)
This
book is $9.95.You
can order RUSSELL COUNTRY
by snail mail: B Bar D Publications:1755 S.E. 108th;
Runnells, IA 50237'.
Telephone -
(515) 966 2461 or by
e-mail-
wacobelle@msn.com
Rodeo
Country
Rodeo Country is
now out of print. It contains a collection of
poetry and written accounts that embody much of
the history and events that shaped Montana and
Wyoming: the westward movement of the covered
wagons; Buffalo Bill Cody
and his Wild West Show; data and
poem about Earl Durand; Wyoming's enactment of
the Suffrage Act (the first state to do so);
the Mormon handcart trek through Wyoming;
Black Sunday (April 14, 1935) and the dust
bowl; the Johnson County War; the Coal Mine
Disaster at Bearcreek, MT; the disastrous winter
of 1885-1886;the migration of the homesteaders
(the Honyockers) from about 1910 to 1922, in
large portions of Montana and Wyoming; and
the recession that hit
farms/ranches in the 1980s. And of course the
book features bios, stats, photos and poetry
about the rodeo champions from Montana and
Wyoming.
RODEO COUNTRY received the 2007
Will Rogers Medallion Award for Outstanding
Achievement in the Publishing of Cowboy Poetry.
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This stagecoach is always runnin' and new poems
are added frequently
...so come back soon.
In the meantime, a right click will take you
to my sister web sites:
The Cowboy Poetry of
CASEY'S CORRAL
The Cowboy Western Poetry of
THE RANGE WRITERS
The Cowboy Poetry Collection of
RODEO COUNTRY
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