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Indian Why Stories by Frank Linderman [1915]. (Quote from sacred-texts.com)

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Frank Bird Linderman (1869 - 1939)
Frank Bird Linderman was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on September 25, 1869, the son of James Bird Linderman and Mary Ann Brannan Linderman. He attended schools in Ohio and Chicago, including Oberlin College, before moving to Montana Territory in 1885 ... More

Indian Why Stories by Frank Linderman [1915]. (Quote from sacred-texts.com)

About the Author

Frank Bird Linderman (1869 - 1939)
Frank Bird Linderman was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on September 25, 1869, the son of James Bird Linderman and Mary Ann Brannan Linderman. He attended schools in Ohio and Chicago, including Oberlin College, before moving to Montana Territory in 1885 at the age of sixteen. He worked as a trapper from 1885 to 1891, then met his wife, Minnie Jane Johns, in Demersville, MT, in 1891. They were married in 1893 in Missoula, MT. They had three children: Wilda, Verne, and Norma.

From 1893 to 1897, he worked in Butte, MT, as an assayer, then moved to Brandon, MT. About 1900, the family moved to Sheridan, MT, where he was an assayer, furniture salesman, and newspaperman.

Linderman was also a politician: he served in the Montana state legislature in the 1903 and 1905 sessions. He ran for the U. S. Congress in 1916 and 1918; in 1924 he ran for the U. S. Senate against Thomas J. Walsh. He was also a Mason, and was inducted to that brotherhood in Sheridan in 1899. He received the Scottish Rite in the Helena consistory in 1911. He continued to be active in Masonry and held a number of offices in that organization.

From 1905 to 1907, he was Montana's Assistant Secretary of State. After that, he became a successful insurance agent with the Guardian Insurance Company of America. In 1917, he bought property at Goose Bay on Flathead Lake, moved the family from Helena, and pursued writing full-time. He also took up sculpting in bronze.

Linderman had wanted to be a writer as early as 1911, when he had been encouraged by Opie Read. Read encouraged him to submit his first collection of tales to Charles Scribner

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