James Willard Schultz letters to George Bird Grinnell, 1903-1933 (bulk 1903-1908).

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James Willard Schultz letters to George Bird Grinnell, 1903-1933 (bulk 1903-1908).

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6 ALS and 4 TLS written from various locations in the West, in which Schultz describes the progress of his various writing projects, including submissions to Forest and Stream and research on Indians. The letters also detail his turbulent personal life, including his participation in the poaching case State of Montana vs. Pulitzer, which involved Joseph Pulitzer's son Ralph. He also writes of his hopes for working in the United States Indian Service as a teacher, and his work as a Western guide. The last three letters, dated 1929-1933, address Grinnell as "Pinutoyi Istsimokan" and are signed by Schultz as "Apikuni."

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Pulitzer, Ralph, 1879-1939

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Grinnell, George Bird, 1849-1938

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George Bird Grinnell was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on 20 Sept. 1849. His father prospered after the Civil War with a wholesale dry goods business. He eventually developed an investment firm in which he hoped his son would develop an interest. While a student at Yale University, however, young Grinnell went on a fossil and dinosaur expedition to the west led by Professor O.C. Marsh. By 1874 Grinnell dissolved the investment firm his father had founded and moved to New Haven, Conn., to work with Mar...

Schultz, James Willard, 1859-1947

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James Willard Schultz (1859-1947) lived in and wrote about the northwestern portion of Montana now included within the Blackfeet Reservation and Glacier National Park. In 1877, at the age of 18, he traveled from his birthplace in Boonville, New York to Fort Benton, Montana Territory. He became interested in American Indians, and lived for many years with the Blackfeet Indians as an accepted member of their nation. Drawing upon his experiences on the western frontier he later wrote thrilling and ...