In Enemy Country

Around an evening campfire, the elderly Blackfeet warrior White Calf, tells a strange tale of his youth during the long-ago buffalo days. His father, Many Swans – an honored man of his tribe, owner of the sacred Buffalo Medicine bundle – has some troubling secret. One evening he announces that he has decided to take his family away from their own tribe and travel many days to the south to live with the Crows. The Crows! Bitter enemy of the Blackfeet! Dutifully, White Calf and his mother follow him into danger, into adventure… deep into enemy country.

Originally published in 1928, In Enemy Country relates this tale, as told to his white friend James Willard Schultz. The year of this adventure is 1866, when the Plains were filled with buffalo… and war parties of enemy tribes. How will White Calf and his parents fare the challenges that await them?

James Willard Schultz (1859 – 1947) knew the Montana frontier well. Arriving at Fort Benton in Blackfeet territory in 1877, he married his beautiful Blackfeet wife, Natahki, and spent decades as a trader, rancher and hunting guide in what is now western Montana. He also spent his later life writing 47 books, many of them novels about his friends, the Blackfeet Indians, and other adventures of the Montana territory. In Enemy Country has long been out of print. This new electronic edition, with a detailed, original introduction by Bryan R. Johnson, makes this fascinating tale of adventure available once more to the public.