[Gutenberg 51174] • The Man in Black: An Historical Novel of the Days of Queen Anne

Fascinating, firsthand memoir of a young white man's life among the Piegan Blackfeet in Montana Territory. Includes detailed accounts of religious ceremonies and customs, child-rearing, food preparation, tanning buffalo hides, war parties, raids, and much else. Of great interest to ethnologists and students of Native American history. First published in 1907, My Life as an Indian is the memoir of J. W. Schultz’s life as a young white man among the Piegan Blackfeet in the Montana Territory. Out of curiosity and in search of adventure, Schultz went west and became a trapper and trader. He was inspired by the journals of Lewis and Clark and George Catlin’s Oregon Trail, but found a wholly different source of inspiration when he met the Blackfeet and quickly settled into their lifestyle, even taking a Blackfoot woman for his wife and riding along with the men on buffalo hunts and wars with neighboring tribes.

Contents

I Fort Benton

II The Ruse Of A Savage Lover

III The Tragedy Of The Marias

IV A War Trip For Horses

V Days With The Game

VI The Story Of The Crow Woman

VII A White Buffalo

VIII A Winter On The Marias

IX I Have A Lodge Of My Own

X The Killing Of A Bear

XI The Kutenai's Story

XII The Great Race

XIII The Snake Woman

XIV The Snake Woman's Quest

XV I Return To My People

XVI The Story Of Rising Wolf

XVII A Friendly Visit From The Crows

XVIII A Raid By The Crows

XIX Nat-ah-ki's Wedding

XX THE Attack On The Hunters

XXI Never-laughs Goes East .

XXII The War Trip Of Queer Person

XXIII The Piegans Move In

XXIV A Wolverine's Medicine

XXV Little Deer's End

XXVI The Ways Of The Northland

XXVII The Story Of Ancient Sleeper

XXVIII Diana's Marriage

XXIX A Game Of Fate

XXX Trade, Hunt And War Party

XXXI Nat-ah'-ki's Ride

XXXII Curbing The Wanderers

XXXIII Crees And Red Rivers

XXXIV The Last Of The Buffalo

XXXV The " Winter Of Death "

XXXVI The " Black Robe's Help"

XXXVII Later Years

This book published in 1907 has been reformatted for the Kindle and may contain an occasional defect from the original publication or from the reformatting.