OLD WEST --
Story of the cowpuncher --
Gift horse --
Savage Santa Claus --
Dunc McDonald --
Trail of the reel foot --
Bullard's wolves --
Injuns --
Whiskey --
When Pete sets a speed mark --
Bill's Shelby Hotel --
Dad Lane's buffalo yarn --
Bab's skees --
MANY TRAILS --
Night herd --
Curley's friend --
When Mix went to school --
Mormon Murphy's confidence --
Lepley's bear --
How Louse Creek was named --
Johnny reforms Landusky --
Safety first --
But where is it? --
Pair of outlaws --
Ghost horse --
MAVERICKS AND STRAYS --
Range horses --
Horse --
Tommy Simpson's cow --
Hands up! --
Mormon Zack, Fighter --
Finger-that-kills wins his squaw --
Dog Eater --
How Lindsay turned Indian --
Broke buffalo --
Ride in a moving cemetery --
Reformed cowpuncher at Miles City --
WIDE RANGES --
Ranches --
Fashions --
Open range --
Bronc twisters --
There's more that one David --
War scars of Medicine-Whip --
How Pat discovered the geyser --
Some liars of the old west --
Highwood Hank quits --
Longrope's last guard.

"Russell writes easily, and in the vernacular. He tells of Indians and Indian fighters, buffalo hunts, bad men, wolves, wild horses, tough hotels, drinking customs, and hard-riding cowboys. . . . [He] lived long enough in the West to acquire a vast amount of information and lore, and he has left enough from his brush to prove his place as a sound interpreter of a stirring period and a fascinating country".-New York Times. "Russell was the greatest painter who ever painted a range man, a range cow, a range horse, or a Plains Indian. He savvied the cow, the grass, the blizzard, the drought, the wolf, the young puncher in love with his own shadow, the old waddie remembering rides and thirsts of far away and long ago. He was a wonderful storyteller. . . . His subjects were warm with life, whether awake or asleep, at a particular instant, under particular conditions. Trails Plowed Under, prodigally illustrated, is a collection of yarns and ancedotes saturated with humor and humanity".-J. Frank Dobie, Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest. Brian W. Dippie is a professor of history at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, and the author of Catlin and His Contemporaries: The Politics of Patronage (Nebraska 1990).

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