Cowboy Charlie

Charlie was a boy with a dream. But not just any dream. Charlie's dream was to go west, to be a cowboy. Even though everyone tried to talk him out of it, Charlie's mind couldn't be changed. That's how it is with dreams, the real ones don't go away.

Sure enough, pretty soon Charlie was on a train heading to Montana, the land of open sky. And the moment Charlie saw the frontier, his heart opened as big as the sky above. At last, Charlie was home.

Jeanette Winter's distinctive folk art paintings and down-to-earth, carefully researched story tell the tale of a boy who had the courage to follow his heart, a boy who became the great American painter of the Wild West, Charlie Russell.