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Old-man, or Napa, as he was called by the Blackfeet, is an
extraordinary character in Indian stories. Both powerful and
fallible, he appears in different guises: god or creator, fool,
thief, clown. The world he made is marvelous but filled with
mistakes. As a result, tensions between the haves and have-nots
explode with cosmic consequences in "Indian Why Stories".
In 1822 Elijah Mounts, barely eighteen, shoulders his rifle and walks from his uncle's Missouri farm to Saint Louis to seek his fortune in the fur trade. Frank B. Linderman's 1922 novel is a first-person account, based on a true story and his own trapping experience, of a young man's coming of age among the trappers and Indians in remote Montana, on the upper reaches of the wild Missouri River. Befriended by Wash Lamkin, "Dad" to all who know him, "Lige" learns to live on the trail, trap the beaver, hunt the buffalo, speak the Cree language, and observe the customs of the country and its people. Enamored of the freedom, wildness, and beauty of the high plains and tied to the people at whose hands he has experienced kindness, welcome, and acceptance, he must ultimately decide whether he will return to civilization or choose the life of a plainsman. Frank B. Linderman (1869-1938) was a Montana miner, trapper, newspaperman, politician, and chronicler of Indian life and culture. His many works include The Montana Stories of Frank B. Linderman, Indian Why Stories: Sparks from War Eagle's Lodge-Fire, and Indian Old-Man Stories: More Sparks from War Eagle's Lodge-Fire, all available in Bison Books editions. David J. Wishart, a professor of geography at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, is the author of An Unspeakable Sadness: The Dispossession of the Nebraska Indians and the editor of The Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, both available from the University of Nebraska Press. Sarah Waller Hatfield is Linderman's granddaughter.
"Bears are commonly misquoted." That's what Frank B. Linderman concluded after spending most of his life in the wild. In "Big Jinny" Linderman lets a little grizzly cub speak for herself, and Jinny has plenty to say. This is Jinny's story about growing up in the Montana wilderness, where every day promises adventure, mischief--and danger. She and her brother cub, Jim, learn from their mother about eating, playing, avoiding certain animals--and, most important of all, minding their own business. But when Jinny wakes up from her first hibernation, curiosity tempts her to ignore this most important lesson and travel far from home, minding everybody else's business while learning a few new lessons about what it is to be a grizzly bear. Big Jinny's story, steeped in nature lore and illustrated with Elizabeth Lochrie's lush watercolors, leads readers young and old on an enchanting adventure through the wilds of western America even as they learn, with Jinny, how grizzlies really live.
Sheriff and outlaw Henry Plummer needed no introduction to the
citizens of Montana Territory in the mid-nineteenth century. And
well into the twentieth century, Frank Bird Linderman sought out
the stories of the people who knew Plummer--and ultimately hanged
him. In 1920 Linderman completed a novel about Plummer's life, but
it was rejected by publisher after publisher. They felt that it
showed too much fidelity to historical truth for a public
increasingly enamored of western dime novels. Eighty years later,
Linderman's lively interpretation of one of Montana's most enduring
legends is being published for the first time.
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