True Life Story: Rising Wolf the White Blackfoot (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Hugh Monroe's Story of His First Year on the PlainsBy James Willard Schultz
Length5h 23m
About this audiobook
True Life Story: Rising Wolf the White Blackfoot recounts the extraordinary career of Hugh Monroe, a Hudson's Bay trader's son who entered Blackfoot country, received the name Rising Wolf, and became a cultural intermediary on the northern plains. Schultz shapes biography into frontier ethnography: hunting episodes, warfare, kinship obligations, spiritual customs, and diplomatic encounters are rendered in a vigorous narrative style that belongs to early twentieth-century "Indian story" literature while preserving valuable memories of pre-reservation Blackfoot life. James Willard Schultz (1859–1947), known to the Blackfeet as Apikuni, was unusually positioned to write such a book. Having lived for years among the Blackfeet, married into the community, guided, traded, and later written extensively about Plains life, he drew on oral testimony, personal experience, and the antiquarian impulse shared by contemporaries such as George Bird Grinnell. His intimacy with Blackfoot landscapes and customs gives the narrative its authority, even as it reflects the assumptions of his era. Recommended for readers of Native American history, frontier biography, and literary ethnography, this volume offers more than adventure. It invites reflection on identity, adaptation, and memory, and should be read critically yet appreciatively as a vivid record of cross-cultural life on the nineteenth-century plains.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A succinct Introduction situates the work's timeless appeal and themes.
- The Synopsis outlines the central plot, highlighting key developments without spoiling critical twists.
- A detailed Historical Context immerses you in the era's events and influences that shaped the writing.
- A thorough Analysis dissects symbols, motifs, and character arcs to unearth underlying meanings.
- Reflection questions prompt you to engage personally with the work's messages, connecting them to modern life.
- Hand‐picked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance.
- Interactive footnotes clarify unusual references, historical allusions, and archaic phrases for an effortless, more informed read.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir
Length5 hrs 23 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 20, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
10Buffalo Hunting
2Introduction
11Camping on Arrow River
3Synopsis
12The Crows Attack the Blackfeet
4Historical Context
13In the Yellow River Country
5Introduction
14The Coming of Cold Maker
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6With the Hudson's Bay Company
15Making Peace with the Crows
7The Sun-Glass
16Analysis
8Hunting with Red Crow
17Reflection
9A Fight with the River People
18Memorable Quotes
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