"C. M. Russell s best booster and pardner "

After Nancy Cooper married Charlie Russell in 1895, she helped turn a journeyman cowboy and ranch hand who sketched and sculpted in his spare time into a full-time artist who sold and exhibited all over the globe. In "Behind Every Man: The Story of Nancy Cooper Russell," Joan Stauffer offers the first biography of the person whom Charles Russell called the best booster and pardner a man ever had. Stauffer s portrait, evoked in the voice of its subject and based on a decade of research, offers readers both a complete life story of Nancy Russell...