A biography of the last wild Indian in North America.

"A most remarkable biography... It is also a real source book of central California ethnology and a detailed record of this example of acculturation which is in most respects without equal in today's anthropological literature." --- American Anthropologist

"The story of Ishi is indescribably sad.  Theodora Kroeber has told it concisely, factually, sympathetically, and beautifully.  She has avoided the excesses of pathos or condemnation to which such a story lends itself.  The book is on of the most fascinating ones about Indians I have ever read." --- Ethnohistory