"Rising Wolf, the White Blackfoot by James Willard Schultz has the distinction of being both thrilling and true as it is the real story of the adventures of Hugh Monroe." -Boston Globe, Dec. 6, 1919
"Hugh Monroe, given the name Rising Wolf by the Blackfeet, came among the Blackfeet in 1813 at the age of 15 and lived with them 'til he died...tells of trapping 715 wolves." -Great Falls (Montana) Tribune, Feb. 18, 1996
"Hugh Monroe...was sent...with the Blackfoot Indian chief...on a hunting and trapping expedition...in a battle with the Crow Indians he showed his courage...saved Red Crow...when he was attacked by a huge Grizzly bear." -LA Times, Jan. 4, 1920
"Monroe, or Rising Wolf, the White Blackfoot, was 98 years was 98 when he passed away amid the mountains...was formally made a member of the Piegan band of Blackfeet...given the name Rising Wolf...became a trader for the American Fur Company." -Conrad (Montana) Independent, April 22, 1920
How did Hugh Monroe, in 1813 come to live with the Blackfeet likely before any other white men had contact with the tribe?
"Rising Wolf" published in 1919 by the Plains veteran, James Willard Shultz, and is "real stuff," vivid and exciting, with the value that comes from firsthand knowledge.
In all his fine Indian stories the author nowhere has produced a more Interesting narrative than this. In It he tells the true story of Hugh Monroe, who came to the Blackfoot country when he was 16. He took part in buffalo hunts, accompanied war parties, saw parts of the United States no white man had ever seen before and helped make peace between the Crows and Blackfeet. "Rising Wolf" is to be highly recommended.
This Indian story is a true one—which is so different. The author says that he was intimately acquainted with Hugh Munroe, or Rising Wolf, and that this story of his first experiences upon the Saskatchewan-Missouri River plains is put down just as it was told to him by the lodge fires of long ago. Rising Wolf was a white man among the Blackfoot Indians, and, as the author says, he had more adventures than most of the early men in the West. He died at ninety-eight and his body lies in Two Medicine Valley, "in full sight of that great sky-piercing height of red rock on the north side of Two Medicine Lake, which we named Rising Wolf Mountain." The book is sure to engage the undivertable attention of those whose appetite for real adventure is never wholly satisfied.
In his famous book "My Life as an Indian", Schultz describes Rising Wolf as "Early Hudson Bay man, typical trapper, trader, and interpreter of the romantic days of the early fur-trading period."
"Rising Wolf" is a thrilling account of life among the Indians in the early part of the last century, by a white boy who "went West" in- those early days and was adopted into the Blackfeet tribe. A stirring story for those who love true stories of guns, buffaloes, Indians, and combats with wild beasts and wild men.
About the author:
James Willard Schultz (1859–1947) was an author, explorer, and historian known for his historical writings of the Blackfoot Indians in the late 1800s, when he lived among them as a fur trader. In 1907, Schultz published My Life as an Indian, the first of many future writings about the Blackfeet that he would produce over the next thirty years. Schultz lived in Browning, Montana.
