MISSOULA, Mont. — The Montana Historical Society is loaning 20 Charles M. Russell paintings held by the MTHS to the C.M. Russell Museum in Great Falls.

Her family persuaded Lolly not to marry Russell and he married Nancy in 1896. A new coffee table book, “Montana’s Charlie Russell,” was published by the Montana Historical Society.

In 1913 Charlie Russell was inducted as an Honorary Lifetime Member of Great Falls Elks Lodge #214. The certificate commemorating this honor is now on display at the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa ...

Charlie Russell impersonator, historian and now author Raphael Cristy will speak about his new book "Charles M. Russell: The Storyteller's Art" at the Montana Historical Society at noon Monday, Nov.

In declining health herself, Nancy Russell began directing her energies toward preserving Charlie’s work in 1938, to guarantee a collection of her husband's art at a major intuition.

Some of the paintings are worth more than $10,000 now. But Charlie Russell, who never could understand why people were willing to pay big prices for his work, had given a good many of them to his ...

Charlie Russell had a magical way with grizzly bears. In his presence, wild grizzlies seemed to shed their wariness of humans, some even napping beside him or leaving their offspring with him to tend.

For the next 20 years Elks Lodge #214’s connection to Charlie Russell remained a point of pride, but the lodge had little contemporary connection with the cowboy artist or the sale of his works.