"A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization."

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Source: Charles Marion Russell (1966). “Good medicine: the illustrated letters of Charles M. Russell”

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Charles Marion Russell was an American painter known for his vivid depictions of the American West, capturing the lives of cowboys and Native Americans.

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"A pioneer is a man who turned all the grass upside down, strung bob-wire over the dust that was left, poisoned the water, cut down the trees, killed the Indian who owned the land and called it progress."

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