Old Indian Trails (Expanded, Annotated)

At twenty‑six, Yale‑educated photographer Walter McClintock followed forester Gifford Pinchot into the American West, traveling to the high plains and mountains of northwest Montana in 1896. There he began a lifelong relationship with the Blackfeet people, returning year after year to record their lives on the land that would later become Glacier National Park.

Living for months at a time in Blackfeet camps, McClintock was eventually adopted as the son of Chief Mad Wolf. His narrative preser...