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. In 1877 Carrie Strahorn visited Bear Creek in Colorado, and noted a fisherman ignoring the “No Fishing” signs and the threats of a “wrathy ranchman” who had discovered him. As the landowner entered the water to haul him out, the wily youth stepped back until the man plunged into deep water. “It was a most exasperating condition for the landowner and he left the water and the river vowing vengeance in `blue hot air,’ as he went dripping into the woods toward his cabin,” Strahorn wrote. One assumes the offending fisherman made good his escape.