Profiles the English-born, Kansas-educated Annie Heloise Abel (1873-1947), a distinguished historical editor and writer.

The other two volumes of her trilogy, The American Indian as Slaveholder and Secessionist (1915) and The American Indian in the Civil War, 1862-1865 (1919), have also been reprinted as Bison Books. Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green, professors of history at the University of Kentucky, have provided an introduction.