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  • Blackfeet Indian Stories

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by George Bird Grinnell ...
    This collection opens a window onto Blackfeet oral tradition, where animals speak, spirits intervene, and human choices echo across the natural world. From the rivalry of antelope and deer in "Two Fast Runners" to the betrayal and rescue at the heart of "The Wolf Man," these tales blend suspense, moral reckoning, and a living sense of kinship between people and animals. The injured husband's ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • 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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  • 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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  • 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

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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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  • The Punishment of the Stingy

    by George Bird Grinnell ...
    The stories in this book deal with peoples of widely different surroundings and habit—some with dwellers on the sea-shore, whose skies are often obscured by rain and fog, who draw their living from the sea, and are at home on the water; and others with inhabitants of the high plains, where the air is pure and dry, and the summer sun is rarely hidden by clouds. As the Indians have no written ... Read more

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  • Trails of the Pathfinders

    by George Bird Grinnell ...
    Three centuries ago half a dozen tiny hamlets, peopled by white men, were scattered along the western shores of the North Atlantic Ocean. These little settlements owed allegiance to different nations of Europe, each of which had thrust out a hand to grasp some share of the wealth which might lie in the unknown wilderness which stretched away from the seashore toward the west. The “Indies” had been ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Two Great Scouts: And Their Pawnee Battallion (Expanded, Annotated)

    by George Bird Grinnell ...
    Few Americans realize how many Native Americans served as scouts and guides for the U.S. Army during the Indian wars of the late 19th century. This is the true story of one battallion of Pawnees organized and led by the famous scouts, the North brothers.A scout's life was hard and often short but they were essential to army operations in the West, as few army officers had knowledge of the tribes ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Ways of Life Vol. I

    by George Bird Grinnell ...
    Series Book 1 - The Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Ways of Life
    Step into the untamed American frontier and discover the remarkable saga of one of the Plains' most formidable warrior nations. George Bird Grinnell, who lived among the Cheyenne and earned their trust through decades of respectful observation, unveils the extraordinary world of a people whose very name struck both fear and admiration across the Great Plains. This isn't merely historical ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jack in the Rockies (Illustrated)

    A Boy's Adventures with a Pack Train

    by George Bird Grinnell, Edwin Willard Deming, Illustrator ...
    Jack in the Rockies is the third volume in the seven-volume Jack, The Young Man series. Jack Danvers, a New York teen embarks on adventures that entertain, enthrall, and educate. In this story, Jack and Hugh Johnson, the old frontiersman, board the up-river steamboat to find action, adventure, hunting, and camping.George Bird Grinnell (September 20, 1849 – April 11, 1938) was an American ... Read more

    $5.48 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus