Wild West

CHEATGRASS DREAMS COME TRUE

ontana has long attracted and produced writers and artists. In the late 1800s it drew “Cowboy Artist” Charles M. Russell and painter Joseph Henry Sharp, who rendered portraits of Indian survivors of the Little Bighorn. Need more examples of writers? Theodore Waddell is happy to provide. “In the 1950s and ’60s writers like A.B. Guthrie Jr. and Dorothy], whose art book/memoir was honored by Western Writers of America as a 2021 Spur Award finalist for contemporary nonfiction. His 2019 canvas , the cover illustration for , is representative of the modernist painter’s work.

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