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. Russell’s illustration depicts an incident that happened during the creation of the town of Hailey, Idaho. Robert Strahorn, whose nickname was “Pard,” was a stakeholder in the town and manager of the company that drew up the lots. There were a number of disputes over the ownership of some of the lots near the center of town. Some of the “lot jumpers” put up a hotheaded barber by the name of Walker who vowed to possess some of the lots for himself, no matter what anyone else said. One day he and his followers, who had been drinking, confronted Strahorn, threatening him with guns drawn. Although Strahorn had his hand on a gun in his pocket, he kept his reserve and spoke firmly and forcefully, until his adversary withdrew his pistol and backed down.