Charles Fletcher Lummis

Bullying the Moqui is the dramatic story of the attempts to forcibly "civilize" the Hopi Indians of Arizona by herding the children to government schools at gunpoint, by "scalping" the men with sheepshears and suppressing the sacred dances and religious ceremonies. This book not only preserves the brilliant journalistic record of Charles Fletcher Lummis' campaign against the Indian policies but reveals fresh research on his personal relationship with Theodore Roosevelt and his influence upon the President's views of the American Indian -- Book jacket.

Contains the entire collection of dispatches filed by the author from the Arizona front and published by the Los Angeles times in 1886.

In September 1884, Charles Lummis left Cincinnati for Los Angeles, and a job reporting for the LA Times - on foot. For four and a half months he walked across the continent, "the longest walk for pleasure on record" as he described it, on the way meeting hundreds of people and having countless adventures. This is his story.