In early 1910 Russell agreed to provide illustrations for a book written by Carrie Adell Strahorn titled Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage: A Woman’s Unique Experience during Thirty Years of Path Finding and Pioneering from the Missouri to the Pacific and from Alaska to Mexico. That summer Mrs. Strahorn, a rather formidable and domineering character, rented a cabin near Russell’s summer retreat, Bull Head Lodge, in Glacier Park, Montana. For the remainder of the summer Mrs. Strahorn badgered and pestered Russell while he worked on the illustrations for the book, which turned out to contain more than 670 pages of text. Russell took the rest of the year to produce the majority of the 350 illustrations that accompanied the text. The book was published the following year in a handsome gilded edition by the Knickerbocker Press, a division of G.P. Putnam’s Sons. Robert Strahorn lived on the western frontier for years before he married. As a journalist for the Denver Rocky Mountain News, he joined the command of General George Crook to cover the campaigns against the Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne in the Wyoming Territory. In the course of his work Strahorn achieved a reputation as an Indian fighter through his own dispatches about himself. This illustration by Russell pokes fun at Strahorn’s supposed reputation as a tough guy and his easy susceptibility to love. On September 5, 1877, he married Carrie Adell Green, the refined and highly educated daughter of an Illinois surgeon.