"With the Indians in the Rockies" is a biography of James Willard Schultz's close friend Thomas Fox. Based on Fox's stories told by the evening camp-fire and before the comfortable fireplaces of various posts, Schultz wrote this book. Shultz described Fox's life of a trapper and fur trader and his adventures in the various Indian camps and trading posts where he spent most of his life.

James Willard Schultz, or Apikuni, (1859 - 1947) was a noted author, explorer, Glacier National Park guide, fur trader and historian. He operated a fur trading post at Carroll, Montana and lived among the Pikuni tribe during the period 1880-82.