Books by Frank B. Linderman

Sheriff and outlaw Henry Plummer needed no introduction to the citizens of Montana Territory in the mid-nineteenth century. He is one of Montana's most enduring legends. This novel describes Plummer's life.

While trapping in Montana during the 1880s, young Frank B Linderman befriended the Kootenai Indians. At their campfires he heard about Skinkoots the coyote, Co-pee the owl, Frog Chief, and the other animal people. The telling impressed him, and in 1926 he was able, from long familiarity, to translate the tales for "Kootenai Why Stories".

Presents a collection of stories that feature rustlers and hustlers, Mounties and tenderfeet, crows and blackfeet, mountain men, prospectors, bartenders, lawyers, townspeople, and assorted dogs, cats, and horses. "In the Name of Friendship" sets up a bluff with ironic results. "Was Chet Smalley Honest?" shows a good deed in danger of punishment.

These stories, collected from Blackfeet, Chippewa and Cree elders and first published in 1920 - are full of wonder at the way things are. Why children lose their teeth, why eyesight fails with age, why dogs howl at night, why some animals wear camouflage - these and other mysteries are explored.

"Bears are commonly misquoted." That's what the author concluded after spending most of his life in the wild. In this book, he lets a little grizzly cub speak for herself, and Jinny has plenty to say. It tells Jinny's story about growing up in the Montana wilderness, where every day promises adventure, mischief - and danger.

In 1822 Elijah Mounts, barely eighteen, shoulders his rifle and walks from his uncle's Missouri farm to Saint Louis to seek his fortune in the fur trade. This book tells his story.

Old-man, or Napa, as he was called by the Blackfeet, is an extraordinary character in Indian stories. Both powerful and fallible, he appears in different guises: god or creator, fool, thief, clown. This title features thirteen verse stories along with an introduction to those stories by Sarah J Hatfield, granddaughter of the author.

Presents the tales that were told by the Crow Indians of southeastern Montana.