Frank B. Linderman (1869–1938) was a Montana miner, trapper, newspaperman, politician, and chronicler of Indian life and culture. His many works include The Montana Stories of Frank B. Linderman, Indian Why Stories: Sparks from War Eagle’s Lodge-Fire, and Indian Old-Man Stories: More Sparks from War Eagle’s Lodge-Fire, all available in Bison Books editions. David J. Wishart, a professor of geography at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, is the author of An Unspeakable Sadness: The Dispossession of the Nebraska Indians and the editor of The Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, both available from the University of Nebraska Press. Sarah Waller Hatfield is Linderman’s granddaughter.