Entry - August 4, 1936

3.00 Not much happened today. Went down to Charles Russell’s old homestead. He is the famous painter. He painted Custer’s Last Stand and many other outstanding pictures. He lived about a half of a mile from camp and I seen the place where he got killed.

Robert

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Comments from Chris

Charles Russell was an artist known for painting scenes of the old American west. He lived from 1864 to 1926, most of which was spent in Montana. When Russell was 24, he spent time living with the Kainai Nation. This is probably why Russell's artwork had a unique quality of being from the perspective of the Indians. 

The painting Robert mentions is shown below. You can see it is from the Indian perspective. 

I'm not sure exactly where the Homestead was, but the is a museum in Great Falls.

Charles Russell's "Battle of Little Bighorn"
"Charles Marion Russell - The Custer Fight (1903)" by Charles Marion Russell - The Library of Congress. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons