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Therese O. (Therese Osterheld) Deming
1874–1945
Best known for children's books about Native American life and the natural world, this early 20th-century writer worked closely with illustrator Edwin Willard Deming to create vividly pictured stories for young readers. Her books, including Indian Child Life and Red Folk and Wild Folk, remained tied to a long career of writing for children.
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Indian Child Life
by Therese O. (Therese Osterheld) Deming
About the author
Born in 1874, Therese O. Deming wrote as Therese Osterheld Deming. Library and catalog records connect her with a substantial body of children's books, including Little Indian Folk (1899), Indian Child Life, Red Folk and Wild Folk (1902), American Animal Life (1916), and Indians of the Pueblos (1936).
Her work was closely linked with artist Edwin Willard Deming, whom she married in 1892. His illustrations appeared in several of her books, and together they produced stories that introduced young readers to Native American life and to animals in North America through richly visual, accessible storytelling.
Some details of her life are only lightly documented in the sources I found, but the record is clear that she published over several decades and died in 1945. Today she is remembered mainly through historical children's books that blended storytelling, ethnographic themes, and art.