A Life on the American Frontiers: Collected Works of Henry Schoolcraft

Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793–1864) was a preeminent American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist, known for his early scholarship on Native American cultures and his comprehensive studies of their languages, customs, and history. He possessed an undying curiosity for the American frontier, which led him to explore vast tracts of wilderness — an endeavor that expanded the nation's geographical k...