Charles M Russell
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Charles Marion Russell was the first artist to live most of his life in the West, sketching and painting not only from live subjects, but from actual experience. Becoming a frontiersman at a young age in 1880, he rode and worked with horses on a daily basis, something that no other Western artist had done before. This biography for children is the first of its kind about Russell, and the subject's own vibrant paintings illustrate his life story. It...
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English
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Bill Carlisle was the last of the Old West's real outlaws.
But, unlike many of the other famous characters of the early days, Bill was not the gunfighter type. Bill never shot or injured anyone in his hold-ups; further, he never robbed a woman passenger. He had, like most old-time cowboys, a wholesome respect for women-all women.
This story of his life reads like the dime-novel fiction of an earlier day, but every incident of his daring and gripping...