Edgar S. Paxson - Wild West brushes & pencils of Montana

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a little Wild West frontier art done by a real pioneer 

and soldier.

mural art from the Montana Capitol 

Lewis and Clark 

Death of John Bozeman of the Bozeman Trail

Native of New York, American painter Samuel Edgar Paxson (1852-1919) was a Montana pioneer, adventurer, settler, and US soldier during the brutal US war in the Philippines, was a survivor and injured in process of the Army naval transport ship wrecking outside Japan  - here his short biography from the Montana Historical Society or University of Montana site. 

chief Joseph of Nez Perce surrender

explorer Pierre de la Verendrye

Both Montana genre and historical artists  Edgar  Paxson and Charlie Russell were friends during their lives, apparently lifetime friends, and Russell eulogized Paxson's  untimely passing. 

Custer's defeat and Lakota victory - Little Big Horn battle

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Charley Russell - historical pen and ink illustrations from Back-Trailing...

 Salvete Omnes,

a very fine Polish historian passed away yesterday - rather young prof. Jaroslaw Centek of Torun University History Department - pacem aeternam. 

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and my quick post of today, I was able to 'corral' some better quality scans of the plates  :
Charley Russell had drawn these  illustrations  for newspaper stories  published in various American daily newspapers, and The Cheely-Raban Syndicate published  a 14 stories in a book titled 'Back-Trailing on the Old Frontiers' in Montana, 1922. Book is available on Archive world library for reading and download.

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