James Willard Schultz

"Schultz first encountered the Blackfeet in Montana Territory in 1877 when he was seventeen, and he lived among them off and on for the next seventy years until his death. These tales are based on his experiences with the Blackfeet, who gave him the name Apikuni. Schultz's Indian alter ego, Apikuni, plays a role in many of the stories, usually under the name Spotted Robe. Though he was neither a historian nor an ethnologist, Schultz filled his stories with Indian history and with detailed descriptions of the daily life and culture of the Blackfeet."--BOOK JACKET.

The author's novel of a Blackfeet Indian chief whose sacred vision war shirt is stolen was completed and published posthumously.

"The life of the Blackfeet tribes in the days of the buffalo, and their ceremonials of the present time."

"Tells how Tom Fox and his "almost brother" Pitamakan took the "danger trail" into country claimed by the Hudson's Bay Company for trading purposes and, by offering the first repeating rifles ever seen there, won the Indians' trade for the Northwest Fur Company, though not without some trouble with men of the Hudson's Bay and several fights with hostile Assiniboines and Crows; and how Tom, having now become one of the warriors of the Blackfoot tribe, find a special reward awaiting him on his return." -- book jacket flap.