Waiting for a Chinook says it all

Reprinted from "The Montana Stockgrower, Centennial Edition"

Who hasn't seen the small painting of the almost dead cow surrounded by wolves? That tiny painting made Charles Russell famous around Montana and the whole west. Here is a story in "the Montana Stockgrower" about that painting.

"A little over four decades ago, the great Montana stockman, Wallis Huidekoper, presented to the Association a small postcard sized watercolor by Charles M. Russell which was to become one of its most highly prized historical objects and one which did much to propel "Kid" Russell into lasting international fam...