Letters from Across the Big Divide

Will Rogers once wrote, "Charlie Russell is the only western artist a true cowboy can''t find fault with." Rogers also considered Charlie America''s best storyteller, cowboy humorist, and sagebrush philosopher.

Though Charlie was under-schooled and semi-illiterate, his salty writings still delight readers eight decades after he crossed "the big divide."

Richard Bird Baker has long strived to bring...