first edition Hardcover
1927 · Boston and New York
by Schultz, James Willard
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good +. Frank E. Schoonover. 208pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Brownish-red cloth over boards with orange ink-stamped titles on the backstrip and front board. Map endpapers. The spine is mildly rolled, and the extremities are very moderately rubbed. In the scarce dust jacket, with periodic small closed tears and chips to the edges which have been backed with 6 pieces of tape. Despite these flaws, the jacket presents quite nicely. With four illustrations by Frank E. Schoonover.
James Willard Schultz lived with the Blackfeet, married a Piegan woman, and wrote in detail about his experiences. The Northern Piegan band of the Blackfeet Nation are the modern Indian tribe usually associated with Glacier National Park. Schultz gave Blackfeet names to geographic features in the park. It was the writings of James Willard Schultz that first enticed George Bird Grinnell to the area in 1885. Grinnell later helped to establish the park in 1910. (Inventory #: 66927)
James Willard Schultz lived with the Blackfeet, married a Piegan woman, and wrote in detail about his experiences. The Northern Piegan band of the Blackfeet Nation are the modern Indian tribe usually associated with Glacier National Park. Schultz gave Blackfeet names to geographic features in the park. It was the writings of James Willard Schultz that first enticed George Bird Grinnell to the area in 1885. Grinnell later helped to establish the park in 1910. (Inventory #: 66927)