author
James Willard Schultz
1859–1947
Drawn from a life spent in the American West, these books blend adventure, frontier travel, and close observation of Blackfeet life. He wrote with the eye of a guide and storyteller, turning personal experience into vivid historical fiction and memoir.
5 Audiobooks
The War-Trail Fort: Further Adventures of Thomas Fox and Pitamakan
by James Willard Schultz
Sinopah, the Indian Boy
by James Willard Schultz
With the Indians in the Rockies
by James Willard Schultz
Blackfeet Tales of Glacier National Park
by James Willard Schultz
Rising Wolf, the White Blackfoot Hugh Monroe's Story of His First Year on the Plains
by James Willard Schultz
About the author
Born in Boonville, New York, in 1859, James Willard Schultz became known as a writer, explorer, fur trader, and Glacier National Park guide. He spent important years living among the Pikuni Blackfeet in Montana and was also known by the name Apikuni.
His writing grew out of firsthand experience in the West, and many of his books center on Blackfeet history, Plains life, wilderness travel, and hunting. That background gave his stories a strong sense of place and helped make him a distinctive voice in early Western writing.
Schultz died in 1947. Readers still return to his work for its mix of action, landscape, and lived frontier detail, even as his books are also read today as products of their era.