A really interesting read. -- Keith Carlson, author of The Power of Place, The Problem of Time Born the son of a Wyandot Chief in Kansas in 1849, Irwin Mudeater was one of the last great frontiersmen of the old American West. Hired to run wagon trains heading to Santa Fe, he fought off Indian attacks, was caught up in the Civil War, drove a stagecoach, and lived the life of a plainsman on the lawless frontier. Most of all, he was a buffalo hunter killing as many as 126 in one day. In 1882, Mudeater moved to Canada, adopted the name Robert Armstrong, and portrayed himself as white. He came...