Ross Santee

He studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, but in early manhood found no demand for his work.

The Grand Canyon State had been admitted to the Union only three years earlier, and major cattle spreads were still hiring frontiersmen to serve as cowboys.

[1][2] The Eastern artist found that he could function as a horse wrangler, and began to put pen to paper to depict his new life.

His career as an illustrator moved from failure to commercial success, and he married Eve Farrell in 1926 and established residences in both Arizona and his wife's state of Delaware.

[4] Ross Santee is identified by the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin as a significant figure of American culture in the 1920s.