William Trowbridge Larned

William Trowbridge Larned was an early 20th-century author and editor known for retelling Native American folklore and fairy tales. He adapted traditional stories collected by ethnologist Henry R. Schoolcraft, preserving the cultural wisdom of Native American tribes from the Great Lakes region. Larned was also a prominent children's book author for the P. F. Volland publishing company in Chicago during the 1910s.