Edmund B. (Edmund Bostwick) Tuttle

Born in 1815 and deceased in 1881, Edmund Bostwick Tuttle was an American minister and writer whose work grew out of his years near the western frontier. The University of Oklahoma Press identifies him as a post chaplain at Fort D. A. Russell in Wyoming Territory from 1867 to 1870, a role that placed him close to the people and conflicts he later described in print.

Tuttle is best known for Three Years on the Plains: Observations of Indians, 1867-1870 and The Boy's Book about Indians, both drawn from what he saw and heard during his time on the plains. He also wrote Border Tales: Around the Camp Fire, in the Rocky Mountains and The History of Camp Douglas, showing a range that ran from frontier observation to Civil War-era history.

His books are very much products of their time, but they remain valuable as firsthand accounts from a chaplain who watched the changing West up close. Readers who enjoy memoir, regional history, and early frontier writing may find his work especially interesting.