The White Indian Boy: and its sequel The Return of the White Indian Boy

First published in 1910, The White Indian Boy quickly became a western classic. Readers fascinated by real—life 'cowboys and Indians' thrilled to Nick Wilson’s frontier exploits, as he recounted running away to live with the Shoshone in his early teens, riding for the Pony Express, and helping settle Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The volume was so popular that Wilson’s son Charles was compelled to write a second book, The Return of the White Indian, which picks up in 1895 where the first memoir en...