Books with author James Willard Schultz

This book is about the experiences of a white boy and an Indian boy who are trapped in the Rockies during the winter. It was written in 1912 and is said to be a true story as told to the author, who in the 1870s lived among the Blackfoot tribe. Full of adventure, it is also a moving story of cooperation by members of two different cultures, and the friendship that develops between them.

In the summer of 1922, a group of elderly Blackfeet men and women met for a few weeks' camping in Glacier National Park with their old friend, James Willard Schultz (whose Blackfeet name was Apikuni). Over the course of the summer, they reminisced about the old day, when the herds of buffalo still covered the plains and their tribe was free to follow them. Each page of this remarkable book provides information on the history of their tribe, their religious beliefs and individual adventures, as presented by the men and women who lived before they were forced onto the reservation.James Willard Schultz (1859 – 1947) knew the Montana frontier well. Arriving at Fort Benton in Blackfeet territory in 1877, he married his beautiful Blackfeet wife, Natahki, and spent decades as a trader, rancher and hunting guide in what is now western Montana. Later in life, he wrote 47 books, many of them novels about his friends, the Blackfeet Indians. Friends of My Life as an Indian, originally published in 1923, has long been out of print. This new electronic edition, with a detailed, original introduction by Bryan R. Johnson, makes this fascinating book available once more to the public.

Thomas and his friend Pitamakan, a Blackfoot boy, live at Fort Benton on the western frontier. One day, having ventured into the mountains to trap beaver, Tom and Pitamakan are attacked by a band of Kootenay Indians, who spare their lives, but make off with everything they have. The boys are stranded without horses, with no food or weapons, without shelter or any means of building a fire. Tom is sure they're going to die. But Pitamakan teaches him how to survive in the wilderness according to the old ways, and together the boys struggle to build shelter, fashion handmade weapons, and hunt for food and clothing. Still, months of harsh winter weather lie ahead and there is danger everywhere. Will the boys ever see their families again?

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Excerpt from Rising Wolf, the White Blackfoot: Hugh Monroe's Story of His First Year on the PlainsOn the plains was my intimate friendship With Hugh Monroe, or Rising Wolf, Whose tale of his first experiences upon the Saskatchewan Missouri River plains is set forth in Rising Wolf just as I had it from him before the lodge fires of the long ago.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.