Charles Marion Russell painted this in 1925. The original hangs at the Montana Historical Society in Helena Montana. Nez saw it and was so taken by the spirit it expressed, he wrote the song Laugh Kills Lonesome, naming it after the picture. It's the second track on "...tropical campfire's..." He's got one of these posters hung up in the Videoranch main house as a reminder to tell himself at least one joke a day he's never heard before.
