Desiderata
Bancroft thanks Sheila Dowd, former head of collection development in the Main Library, John & Barbara Osbourne, Rita Fink, and Jeannette Ferrary for sending copies of these M.F.K. Fisher books to Bancroft in response to our last Desiderata list: A Considerable Town, How to Cook a Wolf, Sister Age, and M.F.K. Fisher and Me: a memoir of food and friendship, respectively.
Now we have another wish list.
James Willard Schultz (1859-1947) came West in the 1870s and was so impressed with the Blackfoot confederacy that he joined a Piegan tribe. He learned the language, took the maiden Natahki for his wife, and lived, hunted, and fought with the tribe for many years. Given the name Apikuni (Far Off White Robe) by his Blackfeet friends, Schultz studied tribal traditions while exploring Montana territory. He produced some of the best books ever written on the American Indian, including My Life as an Indian.
We lack many of his books, including the following:
Apauk, caller of Buffalo, 1916
Alder Gulch gold, 1931
The danger trail, a thrilling story of the fur traders, 1923
The dreadful river cave. Chief Black Elk’s story, 1920 Friends and foes in the Rockies, 1933
Gold dust, 1934
In enemy country, 1928
In the great Apache forest, the story of a lone Boy Scout
An Indian winter, or With the Indians in the Rockies, 1931
My life as an Indian: the story of a red woman and a white man in the lodges of the Blackfeet, 1907
On the warpath, 1914
Plumed snake medicine, 1924
Red Crow’s brother: Hugh Monroe’s story of his second year on the Plains, 1927
Short bow’s big medicine, 1940
Skull head the terrible, 1929
A son of the Navajos, 1927
Stained gold, 1937
Trail of the Spanish horse, 1922
War trail fort: further adventures of Thomas Fox and Pitamakan, 1921
The white buffalo robe, 1930
If you can help, please contact Bonnie Bearden at (510) 642-8171, fax (510) 642-7589, or email bbearden@library.berkeley.edu
Volume 114
Spring 1999
Table of Contents
Bancroft Launches Bioscience Program with Stellar Symposium March 12–13
From the Director: Just what is it that you do, exactly?
The Business of the Humanities The “Trade”— what it is and how Bancroft uses it
The Thrill of the Chase Or, How the Biography of Poet Jack Spicer Came To Be
“The Times, They Are a’ Changin’” Bancroft Launches Free Speech Movement Archive
The Many Uses of Bancroft Collections
Joseph Esherick’s Oral History Illuminates an Architectural Icon
Where Do You “Find” Mark Twain’s Letters?
1999’s Keepsake: San Francisco in the Early 1850s
Bancroft Fellows Research Women and Space, Tobacco and Chocolate
