Jack Among the Indians; Or, a Boy's Summer on the Buffalo Plains
The year is the 1870s. The last great buffalo herds still thunder across the Northern Plains, and wild Indians follow them. Into this vanishing world rides Jack, a young ranchman eager for the adventure of a lifetime. He leaves the familiar saddle of Swiftwater Ranch behind and travels north to live among the Piegan, learning to hunt, to ride, to listen. He sleeps in buffalo-hide lodges, tracks game across the treeless expanse, and watches young warriors prove themselves in ways no schoolbook could teach. This is not a story about conquest or conversion. It is a story about a boy who climbs out of his own time and place and discovers a people deeply, complicatedly alive. Grinnell wrote from firsthand knowledge, and the prose carries the dust and urgency of the Plains themselves. For readers who have ever wanted to taste a world that exists now only in memory and myth.
