Although the 57 year old Robert Taylor looked a bit out of place playing the famous western artist Charles Marion Russell who was 31 at the time of 1895 when this story takes place, he still turned in a fine performance as a cowboy with a talent for art.
This story has Russell finally quitting the business of being a cowboy and trying to make a living at what he considered an avocation. But like all cowboys he resents the homesteaders coming in and taking up the grazing land with their farms. There's some trouble brewing in Cascade where he and his parents reside and Taylor has to make some decisions about what he wants to do. In particular among the cowboys there's Don Megowan who's just itching for a fight with just about anyone.
In this episode Taylor also meets Susan Brown playing the woman who eventually becomes Mrs. Russell. Taylor's best work in his last decade was in westerns and being host of Death Valley Days suited him perfectly.
And his occasional appearances in the stories were a treat.
This story has Russell finally quitting the business of being a cowboy and trying to make a living at what he considered an avocation. But like all cowboys he resents the homesteaders coming in and taking up the grazing land with their farms. There's some trouble brewing in Cascade where he and his parents reside and Taylor has to make some decisions about what he wants to do. In particular among the cowboys there's Don Megowan who's just itching for a fight with just about anyone.
In this episode Taylor also meets Susan Brown playing the woman who eventually becomes Mrs. Russell. Taylor's best work in his last decade was in westerns and being host of Death Valley Days suited him perfectly.
And his occasional appearances in the stories were a treat.
