1905, ISBN: 90e78bad3e70d70550c228d4ea7a7d83

London: The Macmillan Company, 1903. Fourth Printing . Hard Back. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 5 1/2" x 7 3/4. 271 Pages. Previous owner's name and date on the front endpaper. Ros… More...

London: The Macmillan Company, 1903. Fourth Printing . Hard Back. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 5 1/2" x 7 3/4. 271 Pages. Previous owner's name and date on the front endpaper. Ross Dec. 25th 1905. Gold colored top pages edges. Top front corner shows some wear and the bottom front shows very light wear. Illustrated by the author. No one knew how the blue-eyed, blond-haired white baby came to be abandoned, but the Crow tribe that found him raised him as one of its own. As he grew into adolescence, White Weasel was taken to Crooked-Bear, a white man who had long ago abandoned society for a solitary mountain existence and who acted as counselor to the Crow elders. Under Crooked-Bear's tutelage, White Weasel was schooled in white ways and rechristened John Ermine. Frederic Remington's compelling tale relates Ermine's successful reintroduction into white society, his heroic exploits as a scout in the military, and his growing interest in a white lady, Miss Katherine Searles. In his love for Katherine, Ermine must face the complexities and inequalities of American society. Although American culture may well laud Ermine's military prowess and personal integrity, since he is "wild" he can never truly rise through the ranks of society. It is inevitable that Ermine's story ends in tragedy. This book is both an epic Western in the classic sense and a complex tale that captures the conflict between European Americans and Native Americans in the Wild West. John Ermine is the tragic character caught between two cultures, unable to assimilate fully into either. Famed artist Frederic Remington uses his pen to convey the irreparable stalemate between two groups of people in an untamed West while making a moving argument for the preservation of a truly wild western front. Contents: VirginaCity, WhiteWeasel, The Coming Of The Great Spirit, Crooked-Bear, The White Medicine, John Ermine, Transformation, Playing A Man's Part, In Camp, A Brush With The Sioux, T he Truth of the Eyes, Katherine, Playing With Fire, In Love, Bringing in The Wolf, A Hunt, a Proposal, Man To Man, Flight, and The End Of All Things. Illustrations: John Ermine Frontispiece, The Chairman, A Crow, "In the middle of the bunch sat Weasel", " He called the boy to him and put his arm around him",Wolf-Voice ", Halt! Who goes there? ' ", Captain Lewis, Major Ben Searles, " Bullets kicked up the dust", Katherine, The Englishman, Will you please carry my parasol for me? Shockley, " He bore the limp form to the sands", " A tremendous bang roared around the room", and Ramon, The Macmillan Company, 1903, 3<