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Waiting for a Chinook
Charles Marion Russell
Cabin in Chinook, Montana
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Copy of TU2009.39.6483a. Photograph of the water color painting 'Waiting for a Chinook, The Last of 5000' along with Charles M. Russell's signature located in the lower left of the image. On the back handwritten in blue ink is 'Waiting For A chinook' water color size 19"x28" (size of actual painting) and a note 'a chinook is a warm-wind, the only think that would possibly save the starving cattle - winter of 1897-1887 famous as the great destroyer of range cattle in Montana'

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Title(s): 
Waiting for a Chinook
Creator(s): 
Charles Marion Russell (Subject)
Culture: 
American
Date: 
late 19th century - early 20th century
Dimensions: 
Overall: 8 x 10 1/4 in. (20.3 x 26 cm)
Classification: 
Photographs
Object Type: 
Silver Gelatin Print
Credit Line: 
Gilcrease Museum/The University of Tulsa
Accession No: 
TU2009.39.6483d
Previous Number(s): 
45843; D.5.699 (Colorado Springs number)
Department: 
Archive
Collection: 
Charles M. Russell Research Collection (Britzman)
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