About the book: 1993 / From the preface: “I had the honor of knowing the late Jack Crabb - a pioneer of the wild West, a settler who came to the Cheyenne, a tracker, a gunfighter, a hunter for bison...From February to June 1953, with rare exceptions, every day I sat next to him, set up a tape recorder, tried to cheer up the old man if he was out of sorts, from time to time asked leading questions to make it easier for him to restore himself to memory of an event a century (!) ago, and generally tried to be unobtrusively helpful. After all, it was his book...” Jack Crabbe, a ten-year-old boy, is captured by Indians who brutally murder his relatives. Easily accustomed to the primitive life of the Indians, he becomes one of them. But fate throws him back to the white people, then again to the Indians, and so on until the end of his days..