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By Elijah Nicholas Wilson
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An autobiographical narrator recounts childhood and adult experiences living among Shoshone communities and participating in frontier life, offering vivid depictions of Indigenous home routines, hunting, fishing, and the dangers of westward travel. Episodic anecdotes cover encounters with tribal customs, skirmishes, Pony Express and Overland Stage episodes, and everyday tasks necessary for survival, all told with plainspoken humor and practical detail. The collection blends oral storytelling and reminiscence to illuminate cross-cultural contact, pioneer resourcefulness, and the hardships and small comforts that shaped life on the plains and in the mountains.

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Title: The white Indian boy

The story of Uncle Nick among the Shoshones

Author: Elijah Nicholas Wilson

Editor: Howard R. Driggs

Illustrator: F. N. Wilson

Release date: November 12, 2023 [eBook #72101]

Language: English

Original publication: Yonkers-on-Hudson: World Book Company, 1919

Credits: Carla Foust, Terry Jeffress and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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The White Indian Boy

Myers, Boise, Idaho

Shoshone Falls of the Snake River, Idaho; one of the wonder scenes in the land of Washakie’s tribe.

Pioneer Life Series

The

White Indian Boy

The Story of Uncle Nick

Among the Shoshones

by

E. N. Wilson

Revised and Edited by

Howard R. Driggs

Professor of English, School of Education

University of Utah

Illustrated with drawings by

F. N. Wilson

Yonkers-on-Hudson, New York

World Book Company

1922

WORLD BOOK COMPANY

THE HOUSE OF APPLIED KNOWLEDGE

Established, 1905, by Caspar W. Hodgson

Yonkers-on-Hudson, New York

2126 Prairie Avenue, Chicago

The number of men and women who played a part in the conquest and settlement of the Great West grows smaller year by year, and the passing of these plainsmen and mountaineers marks the close of an era in our national life. To put into permanent form, as has been done in this book, a pioneer’s recollections of his early days, with their trials and adventures, is to make a certain contribution to history. Such a record shows us the courage, perseverance, and hardihood with which the foundations of the nation were laid, and to read it is to watch a state in the making. As a story of the days when Indian tribes still roamed the plains, this book will have for boys and girls all the interest of a tale of adventure. It is hoped that it will also give them a realization of the hardships and dangers so manfully faced by the settlers of the West and will implant in them a desire to prove themselves worthy successors to those builders of the nation. Other volumes of the Pioneer Life Series will follow

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