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March 27, 2025

Issue #17: The White Indian Boy

An unassuming autobiography (from 1910) offering an outsider's insider's view on a beautiful Shoshone tribe

Book Review

The White Indian Boy: My Life Among the Shoshones by Elijah Nicholas Wilson

My problem was solved as I was swept out from under the humid pine trees of the south and onto the back of a pinto pony, galloping across the dry plains of Utah and into the mountains of Idaho! 


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