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  • Blackfoot Lodge Tales: The Story of a Prairie People

    by George Bird Grinnell ...
    In this work, George Bird Grinnell provides a collection of traditional Blackfoot (also known as Blackfeet) Native American stories, myths, and legends. Grinnell, who spent significant time among the Blackfoot people, gathered and compiled these tales to preserve and share their rich oral traditions and cultural heritage."Blackfoot Lodge Tales" offers readers insight into the mythology, beliefs, ... Read more

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  • Tenderfoot Days

    by George Robert Bird ...
    This book is neither a History nor a Topography of the Territory of Utah in the early seventies of the last century. The volume is due to the experiences of an outsider who tried to be impartial in his views and sympathies. The personal note, of course, rings in this record of those past days. No onslaught is made on the "wild and woolly" west, nor on the eccentric religion of the majority of the ... Read more

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  • Blackfeet Indian Stories

    by George Bird Grinnell ...
    The Blackfeet were hunters, travelling from place to place on foot. They used implements of stone, wood, or bone, wore clothing made of skins, and lived in tents covered by hides. Dogs, their only tame animals, were used as beasts of burden to carry small packs and drag light loads. The stories here told come down to us from very ancient times. Grandfathers have told them to their grandchildren, ... Read more

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  • Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk-Tales

    Enriched edition. With notes on the origin, customs and character of the Pawnee people

    by George Bird Grinnell, Julian Kendall ...
    In "Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk-Tales," George Bird Grinnell presents a rich tapestry of Native American folklore that encapsulates the beliefs, values, and historical narratives of the Pawnee tribe. Grinnell's meticulously crafted prose elegantly intertwines the oral traditions of storytelling with a scholarly examination of culture, capturing the poetic simplicity and profound moral lessons ... Read more

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  • Blackfoot Lodge Tales

    by George Bird Grinnell ...
    The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts, in addition to Secret and esoteric subjects, such as: occult, freemasonry, alchemy, hermetic, ... Read more

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  • Blackfoot Lodge Tales, the Story of a Prairie People

    by George Bird Grinnell ...
    Originally published in 1892, this early work on Native American Folklore is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It contains tales of the plains of North America and the adventures and customs of the people who inhabit it. This is a fascinating work and is thoroughly recommended for anyone interested in western folklore. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back ... Read more

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  • Hunting in Many Lands

    Edited by Theodore Roosevelt, George Bird Grinnell ...
    Originally published in 1895 and remastered by the Boone and Crockett Club in 2012. This second volume in the Club's Acorn series features unique hunting adventures from around the world by members of the Boone and Crockett Club. It includes Theodore Roosevelt on hunting in cattle country, Henry T. Allen tells of wolfhunting in Russia. W.A. Chambers reviews East African hunting. W.W. Rockhill ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Blackfeet Indian Stories

    by George Bird Grinnell ...
    Here are the great stories of the Blackfeet, recorded by the famous conservationist and ethnologist, George Bird Grinnell, who became a tribal member in 1885. The Nizitapi, or Real People, as they call each other, were people of the buffalo. They originated on the plains of today’s southern Alberta, western Saskatchewan, and central Montana. Famed frontier artist George Catlin called the Blackfeet ... Read more

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  • Jack, The Young Trapper (Illustrated)

    An Eastern Boy's Fur Hunting in The Rocky Mountains

    by George Bird Grinnell ...
    Jack, the Young Trapper is the fifth in the series of seven volumes of Jack, The Young Man. Jack Danvers, a New York teen embarks on adventures that entertain, enthrall, and educate. This time, Jack’s friend and mentor Hugh Johnson teaches him some of the ways a frontiersman survived in the wilds of Colorado.George Bird Grinnell (September 20, 1849 – April 11, 1938) was an American anthropologist, ... Read more

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  • The Father of Glacier National Park

    Discoveries and Explorations in His Own Words

    by George Bird Grinell, Hugh Grinnell ...
    The story of this glorious Montana landmark, told through the journals and letters of the man who fought to conserve it—maps and photos included.With his small group of explorers, George Bird Grinnell discovered and named forty geological features east of the Continental Divide and west of the Blackfeet Reservation. He also happened to be a prolific writer and record-keeper who diligently made ... Read more

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  • The Fighting Cheyennes

    by George Bird Grinnell ...
    "This book deals with the wars of the Cheyennes. A fighting and a fearless people.When their struggles with the white men began, some of their older and wiser men strove earnestly to preserve peace, but their efforts failed. During these first wars between the whites and the Cheyennes, the United States Government was struggling for its very life. Its attention was concentrated on the war between ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Beyond the Old Frontier -

    Adventures of Indian-Fighters, Hunters, and Fur-Traders

    by George Bird Grinnell ...
    To-day the vast territory lying between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean is occupied by many millions of people. Fifty years ago, except on the Pacific slope, it had few white inhabitants. Then it was the Far West, beyond the frontier, the Indian country—the unknown. A journey into it was believed to be full of peril. In the minds of the general public it was as far away as Central ... Read more

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