Presents a portrait of a complex man in the volatile world of Oklahoma Indian life from 1873 to 1908. This book combines historical scholarship with insight into a complicated personality and the turbulent politics of Indian Territory.

Daniel F. Littlefield Jr. is a professor of English at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and director of the American Native Press Archives. He is the editor, with Carol A. Petty Hunter, of Alexander Posey's "Fus Fixico Letters" (Nebraska 1993).