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 the summer of 1893 the Strahorns participated in a canoe trip through parts of British Columbia. Their party traveled in three canoes, commanded by a man named Captain Tallyard. Russell’s illustration depicts Tallyard’s personal attendant, Indian Harry, dressed in a traditional robe. Mrs. Strahorn wrote that Indian Harry “could not understand much English, and thereby made some very funny mistakes, but he kept on beaming with pleasure and enjoying the situation as much as anybody.”