Elliott Anderson Means, painter and sculptor of western and religious subjects, illustrator, and itinerant muralist, was born in Stamford, Texas on March 10, 1904 (some report 1905). When he was a child he traveled in a covered wagon from Texas to a homestead in New Mexico where he in a raid led by Mexican revolutionary, Pancho Villa. Means went to school in El Paso and then became a hobo, working in Oklahoma as a wheat-field hand and as a sign and mural painter in California.
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