A Most Desperate Situation: Frontier Adventures of a Young Scout, 1858-1864. This item is unavailable.A Most Desperate Situation: Frontier Adventures of a Young Scout, 1858-1864

Includes 11 never-before-published C.M. Russell pen and inks. Readers will find here a western that can hold its own beside other masterpieces of the genre. Somewhere between a memoir and a fiction, a potboiler and a folktale, A Most Desperate Situation offers the reader adrenaline-pumping action, a richly imagined western landscape, complexly drawn characters both sympathetic and repellent, spellbinding speeches, scarifying tortures and breathtaking bravery, a tender love story, and the compulsive pleasures of an undeniable page-turner. Prominent Montana pioneer Walter Cooper wrote A Most Desperate Situation in the 1910s. In 1913 he commissioned famed western artist Charles M. Russell to provide artwork for the text. Between 1913 and 2000 the manuscript and its accompanying Russell artwork remained undiscovered and unpublished. Now, almost a century later, TwoDot Books presents this treasure to readers and western art collectors for the first time. Historical photos and Russell-Cooper correspondence about the work round out this masterpiece of western writing. Visit our Most Desperate Situation website!