Product Description: The great Northwest—that wonderful frontier that called to itself a world's hardiest spirits—is rapidly becoming a settled country; and before the light of civilizing influences, the blanket-Indian has trailed the buffalo over the divide that time has set between the pioneer and the crowd...read more

Product Description: The great Northwest—that wonderful frontier that called to itself a world's hardiest spirits—is rapidly becoming a settled country; and before the light of civilizing influences, the blanket-Indian has trailed the buffalo over the divide that time has set between the pioneer and the crowd...read more

Product Description: What a splendid lodge it was, and how grand War Eagle looked leaning against his back-rest in the firelight! From the tripod that supported the back-rest were suspended his weapons and his medicine-bundle, each showing the wonderful skill of the maker...read more

Product Description: Native American Indian Stories, SPARKS FROM WAR EAGLE'S LODGE-FIRE Indian Why Stories (Myths, Legends, and Other Writings) with Illustrations By Frank Bird Linderman. CONTENTS WHY THE CHIPMUNK'S BACK IS STRIPED HOW THE DUCKS GOT THEIR FINE FEATHERS WHY THE KINGFISHER ALWAYS WEARS A WAR-BONNET WHY THE CURLEW'S BILL IS LONG AND CROOKED OLD-MAN REMAKES THE WORLD WHY BLACKFEET NEVER KILL MICE HOW THE OTTER SKIN BECAME GREAT MEDICINE OLD-MAN STEALS THE SUN'S LEGGINGS OLD-MAN AND HIS CONSCIENCE OLD-MAN'S TREACHERY WHY THE NIGHT-HAWK'S WINGS ARE BEAUTIFUL WHY THE MOUNTAIN-LION IS LONG AND LEAN THE FIRE-LEGGINGS THE MOON AND THE GREAT SNAKE WHY THE DEER HAS NO GALL WHY INDIANS WHIP THE BUFFALO-BERRIES FROM THE BUSHES OLD-MAN AND THE FOX WHY THE BIRCH-TREE WEARS THE SLASHES IN ITS BARK MISTAKES OF OLD-MAN HOW THE MAN FOUND HIS MATE DREAMS RETROSPECTIO...read more

Product Description: Fifteen short stories about foxes are selected from several books of fairy tales from various sources. These tales are designed to be fascinating reading for young children. The tales are: (1) The Fox-Physician, (2) The Fox and the Wolf, (3) The War of the Wolf and the Fox, (4) The Fox and the Lapp, (5) Tamamo, the Fox Maiden, (6) Old-Man and the Fox, (7) Laughing Eye and Weeping Eye, or the Limping Fox, (8) The Fox and the Blackbird, (9) Why Reddy Fox Has No Friends, (10) Reddy Fox Disobeys, (11) Reddy Fox, the Boaster, (12) All About the Little Small Red Hen, (13) Mr...read more

Product Description: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

A grizzly bear tells of her life in the Montana wilderness, from sharing adventures and mischief with her brother Jim, to learning from other animals as she tramps around by herself, to becoming a mother to her own cubs.

An Indian woman's recollections of her youth reveal her people's way of life before the arrival of the white man

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Product Description: Frank Bird Linderman was a popular, prolific, early-twentieth-century recorder of Indian life and culture on the Northern Plains. Linderman lived among the Indians - studying, loving, and grieving for a people whose way of life was under siege...read more

Product Description: The Indians of the northwestern plains always laughed at the tales about Old-man, heard around the lodge fire in the wintertime after sunset. For a powerful character, he was comically flawed. Old-man made the world but sometimes forgot the names of things...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

After plundering the miners of Bannack, Montana, for a long time, the sheriff and principle outlaw of the town will face frontier justice from the outraged miners.

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Product Description: Frank B. Linderman knew the frontier types who appear in these robust stories and sketches. A trapper in Montana during his youth, he stayed on as a publisher, politician, and businessman, beginning to write in middle age. The Montana Stories of Frank B...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Trickster and transformer, powerful and vulnerable, Coyote is a complex figure in Indian legend. He was often the ultimate example of how not to be: foolish, proud, self-important. The tales in Old Man Coyote were told by the Crow Indians of present-day southeastern Montana...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Indians of the northwestern plains always laughed at the tales about Old-man, heard around a campfire after the sun set. For a powerful character, he was comically flawed. Old-man made the world but sometimes forgot the names of things...read more

A tribute to the Blackfeet Native Americans recounts their history through the period when they were forced to become farmers after the extinction of the buffalo and provides forty-nine lavish paintings of individual tribe members.

Book by Linderman, Frank Bird

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