The C.M. Russell Memorial and Those Who Lived There

Join author Suzanne Waring and great-great grandson of Paris Gibson, Bill Dakin, for a discussion of the various residents and caretakers of the Russell home and how it was saved for the wrecking ball multiple times.
Charles Russell and his wife, Nancy, built the house and lived in it during the years that Charlie was becoming a famous western artist. After Russell’s death, the daughter-in-law and other family members of Paris Gibson, the founder of Great Falls and a U.S. Senator, kept the story of Russell alive for almost a quarter of a century by living in the Russell home and caring for the memorial that bore Russell’s name.