George Bird Grinnell

Includes nine mystery tales told by Pawnee, Blackfoot, and Cheyenne storytellers in the late nineteenth century.

Grade level: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, e, i, s, t.

Account of a naturalist who was hired as a camp meat hunter on expeditions into Indian country with Gen. George A. Custer. Illness prevented him form joining Custer's last expedition. Interesting accounts of looking for dinosaur bones, hunting, scouting, etc. The book offers a unique viewpoint of the character of the land, animals, and people who watched were there when the West was changed forever.