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American Indian Genre
Books in the American Indian genre:
Sign Talk (1918)
Author(s):
Lillian Delger Powers
Hugh Lenox Scott
Ernest Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
The Last of the Mohicans (1919)
Author(s):
James Fenimore Cooper
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Indian Old-Man Stories: More Sparks from War Eagle’s Lodge-Fire (1920)
A collection of Native American myths, legends, and tales. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Frank Bird Linderman
Illustrator(s):
Charles Marion Russell
How It Came About Stories (1921)
A collection of Native American stories. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Frank Bird Linderman
Illustrator(s):
Carle Michel Boog
The Book of Woodcraft and Indian Lore (1922)
Author(s):
Ernest Seton Thompson
Illustrator(s):
Ernest Seton Thompson
Indian Chief and Prospector in the Snow (1925)
This illustration was probably prepared for a magazine story, but the source is currently unknown.
Author(s):
Unknown
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Little Ugly Face and Other Indian Tales (1925)
An elementary school reader.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Florence Claudine Coolidge
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
The Last of the Mohicans (1926)
This, the second book in the Leatherstocking Tales, is again set in New York during the French and Indian War. Uncas is the titular Mohican.
Author(s):
James Fenimore Cooper
Illustrator(s):
Frank Schoonover
Claws of the Thunderbird: A Tale of Three Lost Indians (1928)
Three Chippewa children captured by the Sioux escape to warn their tribe of an imminent raid by their enemy. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Holling C. Holling
Illustrator(s):
Holling C. Holling
Little Indians (1930)
An elementary school reader.
Author(s):
Mabel Guinnip La Rue
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
The Rhythm of the Redman (1930)
A collection of Native American songs and dances.
Author(s):
Julia M. Buttree
Illustrator(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
Daniel Boone (1931)
A brief biography of the pioneering backwoodsman.
Author(s):
Unknown
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
The Willow Whistle (1931)
Mary Anne’s father opens a general store on the prairie. Her friend Eric teaches her to make willow whistles.
Author(s):
Cornelia Meigs
Illustrator(s):
E. Boyd Smith
The Sign of the Buffalo Skull (1932)
A biography of Jim Bridger, mountain man.
Author(s):
Peter O. Lamb
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Caddie Woodlawn (1935)
Pioneer adventures of a girl growing up in northern Wisconsin.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Carol Ryrie Brink
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
Drums Along the Mohawk (1936)
Author(s):
Walter D. Edmonds
Illustrator(s):
Henry Bitz
The Gospel of the Redman: An Indian Bible (1936)
A summary of Native American society and belief as it was before Columbus.
Author(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
Julia M. Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
The Log of Christopher Columbus’ First Voyage to America in the Year 1492 (1938)
An adaptation of Columbus’ description of his first voyage to America.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Bartolomé de las Casas
Illustrator(s):
John O’Hara Cosgrave, II
Quito Express (1938)
A baby stows away on the Quito Express.
Author(s):
Ludwig Bemelmans
Illustrator(s):
Ludwig Bemelmans
Five Bushel Farm (1939)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell