Introduction

Biography

Earl was the son of Ja­cob J. Brin­in­stool and Ell­en S. Blos­som, and hus­band of Es­telle Ow­en.

After earn­ing a bu­si­ness de­gree, he moved with his wife to Los An­ge­les in 1895.

He first worked as a jour­nal­ist, but lat­er be­came a free­lan­cer, writ­ing po­et­ry, and pub­lish­ing ar­ti­cles in Hun­ter-Tra­der, Sun­set, Fron­tier Times, Out­door Life, Win­ners of the West, and other ma­ga­zines.

He is al­so known for bi­og­ra­phies of the In­di­an lead­ers Cra­zy Horse, Red Cloud, and Dull Knife.

Works

• My Peo­ple the Sioux (ed­it­or)
• Fighting In­di­an War­ri­ors; True Tales of the Wild Fron­tiers
• Campaigning with Cus­ter and the Nine­teenth Kan­sas Vol­un­teer Cav­al­ry on the Wa­shi­ta Cam­paign, 1868–69 (pho­to­graph­er)
• Trail Dust of a Ma­ver­ick (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1914)
• The Boze­man Trail, 1922
• A Troop­er with Cus­ter, 1925
• Fighting Red Cloud’s War­ri­ors: True Tales of In­di­an Days When the West Was Young, 1926
• Hoof­prints of a Cow­boy and U. S. Ran­ger (Cald­well, Ida­ho: Cax­ton Print­ers, 1941)
• Wyoming Cat­tle Trails: His­to­ry of the Mi­gra­tion of Ore­gon-Raised Herds to Mid-West­ern Mar­kets (Cald­well, Id­aho: Cax­ton Print­ers, 1948)
• Troopers with Cus­ter, 1952