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VERSO
Label, Altermann & Morris Galleries, Santa Fe, New Mexico

In 1910, Charles M. Russell was commissioned to illustrate a picturesque memoir of the Old West by Carrie Adell Strahorn titled Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage. In addition to seventeen paintings, Russell completed sixty-eight pen and ink drawings for the book. His reputation as an illustrator was already firmly established and he was eagerly sought after by such leading authors of the day as Owen Wister, Theodore Roosevelt, Bret Harte, and Emerson Hough.

PROVENANCE
Altermann & Morris Galleries, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1997
Private collection, Atlanta, Georgia

LITERATURE
Carrie Adell Strahorn, Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1915, p. 575, illustrated

Condition ReportAs viewed through glass. Paper appears to be slightly yellowed. Pinholes in corners, near edge of frame. Three spots of foxing in upper-right quadrant.

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