Russell Museum Complex in Great Falls, Montana houses more than 2,000 Russell artworks, personal objects, and artifacts. In 1916, Congress passed legislation to create the Rocky Boy Reservation. He became an advocate for Native Americans in the west, supporting the bid by landless Chippewa to have a reservation established for them in Montana. He is known as 'the cowboy artist' and was also a storyteller and author. He created more than 2,000 paintings of cowboys, Native Americans, and landscapes set in the western United States and in Alberta, Canada, in addition to bronze sculptures. Russell, Charlie Russell, and ' Kid' Russell, was an American artist of the American Old West. Charles Marion Russell (Ma– October 24, 1926), also known as C.
