My Life as an Indian (Expanded, Annotated) - Softcover

Schultz, James Willard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1519039085 ISBN 13: 9781519039088

Publisher: Independently published, 2016

Synopsis

Beautiful, tender, haunting, and extremely exciting, this is the memoir of famed author, explorer, guide, trader, and historian of the Blackfoot Indians, James Willard Schultz. Here he tells of his life with the Blackfeet and his marriage to a Blackfoot woman, whom he deeply loved. From 1880 to 1903, Schultz lived the life of a Blackfoot Indian with Nat-ah'-ki and her people. During this time, he began writing for magazines, at times running a trading post, and working as a guide in the West. He met historian, writer, and naturalist, George Bird Grinnell, who encouraged him to write this heartfelt and important memoir. As an ethnography of a people and a time it is invaluable. Though he would marry again, Schultz eventually went back to live near the Native peoples he'd come to love and is buried in the traditional ground of Nat-ah-ki's people. You won't read another memoir like it. Every memoir of the American West provides us with another view of the migration that changed the country forever.

About this edition

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1519039085
• ISBN 13: 9781519039088
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 346