Frank Bird Linderman

Indian Why Stories (Dodo Press) Frank Bird Linderman

Frank Bird Linderman (1869-1938) was a Montana pioneer and the author of: Indian Why Stories (1915), On a Passing Frontier (1920), Bunch-Grass and Blue-Joint (1921), Lige Mounts: Free Trapper (1922), Red Mother (1932) and Beyond Law (1933). He wrote an autobiography with Chief Plenty Coups (1848-1932) when Plenty Coups was 80 years old. Frank would visit Plenty Coups at his home on the Crow Reservation and ask the Chief to recount parts his life story. Two Crow Indians, Coyote-runs and Braided-scalplock, would assist Plenty Coups in recounting his life to F. B. Linderman. The resulting book of Plenty Coup's life was published in 1930 as Plenty-Coups: Chief of the Crows by Plenty Coups and Frank Bird Linderman.