The Boy's Book About Indians (Illustrated Edition)

Edmund Tuttle was Post-Chaplain at Fort Russell, in the Wyoming Territory for three years during the early 1870s. As well, he spent many years among the Native American trives of Western New York. As a result, Tuttle had the opportunity to observe and interact personally with a variety of Native Americans.

Tuttle set out to produce a "fair" view of the American Indian that would appeal to boys (right, or wrong, the most common young audience writers attempted to attract in the late-19th and ...