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Why Gone Those Times? Blackfoot Tales (Civilization of the American Indian)
Why Gone Those Times Blackfoot Tales - Civilization of the American Indian Author:James Willard Schultz, Eugene Lee Silliman (Editor), Charles M. Russell (Illustrator) During his long life, James Willard Schultz wrote thirty-eight books that attracted a large following among admirers of western life and history. Here for new readers, and for those already familiar with his work, is a new collection of Schultz's stories, many of them never before published. — A fur trader from 1878 to 1904. Schultz married a... more » Blackfoot girl and formed close friendships with the men of the tribe, who gave him the Blackfoot name Apikuni. With the disappearance of the buffalo, adjustment to a new life was as difficult for Schultz as for his Blackfoot friends. He took to the mountains, hunted game, explored the eastern slope of the Rockies, and served as a guide to other hunters and explorers. He named mountains, glaciers, and lakes, and because of his efforts and those of George Bird Grinnell, the northern portion of the Rockies was set apart as Glacier National Park.
During those active years he found time to record the tales he heard from his Indian friends in the Northwest.« less