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I have marked the winters upon the edge of this ancient bow of mine. It was my grandfather's bow; he made it in the days of his youth, and in his old age gave it to me. I made this first little crease in it to mark my eighteenth winter, the winter in which I for the first time met the enemy they were a war party of Crows and fought them, and took my first scalp. Count the creases; see, there are five tens, and one; it is, then, just fifty winters...
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Even experienced warriors would have hesitated to set off on a two-man war party, and for young Tom Fox and his Blackfoot almost-brother, Pitamakan, it would have been foolhardy. But Tom was in trouble. Against orders, he had taken his Uncle Wesley's finest buffalo horse on a hunting trip with his Blackfoot friends. Now the camp had been raided and the horse stolen. So Tom had to turn from the pleasures of the hunt to the terrible risks of a war party...
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An elderly Blackfeet warrior tells the story of his youth, when his tribe owned and lived free on the great plains at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. During those days of freedom and plenty, they hunted the vast herds of buffalo, worshipped their ancient gods and sought glory in war parties against their traditional tribal enemies. In order to achieve his adulthood in the tribe, Little Otter must face the dangerous vision quest to find his sacred...
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What strange series of events caused the Blackfeet Tribe allow a female tribe-member to buck traditions and become a warrior and eventual chief of their tribe?
In 1919, famous adopted Blackfeet author James Willard Schultz would publish in narrative form the life story of one of the few famous female warriors to become leader of the Blackfeet tribe in his book titled, "Running Eagle, the Warrior Girl."
This book is a thrilling Indian story written...
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Did the famous Blackfeet chief, Black Elk, uncover a mysterious water-dwelling cryptid in a river cave located in what is now Glacier National Park in Montana?
Adopted Blackfeet tribe member James Willard Schultz relates the suprising story as told to him by Chief Black Elk in his 1920 book "The Dreadful River Cave: Chief Black Elk's Story."
In relating how he first obtained Black Elk's true-life account of the mysterious river cave in Glacier National...
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J. W. Schultz (1859-1947) was an author, explorer, and historian known for his historical writings of the Blackfoot Indians in the late 1800s, when he lived among them as a fur trader. In 1907, Schultz published My Life as an Indian, the first of many future writings about the Blackfeet that he would produce over the next thirty years. Schultz lived in Browning, Montana.
"An Indian Winter, or With the Indians in the Rockies" is by a Rocky Mountain...
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"Few works of fiction are as entertaining as the real-life adventures of Billy Jackson." - Stars Over Montana (2009)
"William Jackson, Indian Scout, is the story of a frontier lad, who grew up to serve as a scout under Generals Custer, Miles and Reno in the Indian wars and was one of those few who, at the Battle of Little Big Horn, was cut off from Reno's command and escaped slaughter of that thrilling and memorable battle." -The State (Columbia,...
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In 1917, famed author and adopted Blackfeet tribe member James Willard Schultz would publish one of the finest examples of his telling of true western stories in his book titled, "The Gold Cache," narrating the adventures of a trader and some Blackfoot Indians who travel far in search of buried gold.
The Gold Cache tells the story of a man who was shown 25 gold pieces, said to be but a small part of a great cache of similar coins. With Indian pal...
10) On the War Path
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On the Warpath is the third in the series of novels by James Willard Schultz that features young Thomas Fox, nephew of the American Fur Company factor of Fort Benton, and his great Pikuni friend, Pitamakan. The year is 1863 and the prairies are swarming with war parties from enemy tribes. The two boys must travel far and fight hard to keep their scalps and count coups
