In the early 1890s, a fresh faced Walter McClintock left school and headed west to Montana, where he began living and observing the Blackfoot tribe, where he earned enough trust that they even adopted him and taught him customs and rituals. At the same time, McClintock was a trained scientist who kept notes to write the rituals and traditions down, while also taking pictures of it.
In The Old North Trail, McClintock tells the story of the Blackfoot tribe, describing everything from how they got and stored food, what their connections to nature were, the climate, and all of the stories, legends and religious rituals that comprised the tribe. In the process, he wrote one of the most vivid and poignant works that ever truly captured the culture of a Native American tribe.
This edition of The Old North Trail is specially formatted with a Table of
Contents and over 100 images that McClintock took and put in his work.
