During the period when Russell worked as a cowboy, the newspapers were full of stories about tenderfeet who arrived in a western town expecting to receive what one frontier newspaper editor described as “dime-novel western cordiality,” but instead became the objects of sometimes cruel practical jokes. Russell’s depiction shows the threatening western bully and the innocent eastern greenhorn, characters that became stereotypes in western literature and film. The drawing shown here was among several that were reproduced as humorous postcards for the tourist trade by the W. T. Ridgley Company of Great Falls.