James, Will Roderick (06 June 1892–03 September 1942), western author and artist, was born Joseph Ernest Nephtali Dufault in St. Nazaire de Acton, Quebec, Canada, the son of Jean Dufault and Josephine (maiden name unknown). When the Dufault family moved to Montreal, he attended a Catholic school and his father ran a hotel, in which the boy heard stories of trappers that he later used to fabricate parts of his ...
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James, Will Roderick (1892-1942), western author and artist
Robert L. Gale
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López, José Dolores (1868-1937), farmer, carpenter, and woodcarver
Lonn Taylor
López, José Dolores (01 April 1868–17 May 1937), farmer, carpenter, and woodcarver, was born in Córdova, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, the son of Nasario Guadalupe López and María Teresa Bustos. Nasario López was a carpenter, and his son learned that trade as a child. As a young man he worked as a shepherd, but in 1893 he married Candelaria Trujillo and moved to a farm in Llano de Quemadeños, east of Córdova. They had seven children. Candelaria died in 1912, and in 1913 López moved back to Córdova and married Demetra Romero. That marriage was childless....
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Russell, Charles Marion (1864-1926)
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Charles M. Russell. Photographic print, late nineteenth or early twentieth century. Courtesy of the Library of Congress (LC-USZ62-114799).
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Russell, Charles Marion (1864-1926), artist and author
Robert L. Gale
Russell, Charles Marion (19 March 1864–24 October 1926), artist and author, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Charles Silas Russell, a wealthy businessman, and Mary Elizabeth Mead. As a child, Russell always preferred modeling in clay, drawing, and playing hooky. In 1879 his parents sent him to a military academy in New Jersey, but after a year they relented and allowed him to realize his dream of becoming a cowboy. He moved to the Judith Basin in Montana, where he tended sheep (1880), did chores for a hunter and trapper (1881–1882), and sketched western activities and scenery in his spare time. After a visit back in St. Louis for a month in 1882, he returned to the Great Northwest as a horse wrangler and cow puncher for several Montana cattlemen (1882–1893), but he continued to sketch and paint as much as he could....
