My Life as an Indian: the Story of a Red Woman and a White Man in the

SCHULTZ (J[ames]. W[illard].)

My Life as an Indian: the Story of a Red Woman and a White Man in the Lodges of the Blackfeet.

A MONTANA GUIDE AMONGST THE BLACKFEET

First UK edition. 16 halftone photographic plates. 8vo. Brown cloth with extremities slightly bumped, text block bruised at one corner, else very good. Bookplate to front pastedown, a few contemporary pencil notes within. x, [iv], 426pp. London, John Murray, 1907.

£200.00

James Willard Schultz (1859-1947) operated a trading post at Carroll, Montana in the early 1880s, and acted as a guide to the Glacier National Park. During this period, he lived among the Pikuni Nation of Blackfeet Indians, and this book tells the story of his early years in the region. Given the name Apikuni by the Pikuni chief Running Cane, Schultz married a Piegan Blackfoot woman named Natakhi, with whom he had a son named Lone Wolf. He tells the story of his courtship with Natahki, and describes her as “the book’s finest character”. A later tale includes his reminiscences of encounters with Louis Riel.

George Bird Grinnell, for whom Schultz had acted as a hunting guide, provides the introduction and many of the photographs for this volume. This was Schultz’s first book, he would go on to write over thirty more.

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