Utica is an unincorporated community in west-central Judith Basin County, Montana, United States.

Russell, who at the time was a young cowhand hired by a local rancher and gold miner named Jake Hoover.

[5] Russell stated that he learned most of his frontier skills from Hoover,[6] and the two men remained lifelong friends.

Hoover; local businesswoman Mollie Ringold, a former slave;[9] store owner Charles Lehman and Russell himself are all depicted in the painting, seen standing between the hitching post and door of the general store.

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