The name given to a white man who was married to an Indian woman. The term "squaw man" was sometimes used as one of contempt, but it was by no means justified in this sense. Many prominent men married Indian women.
Granville Stuart, one of the biggest cattlemen in Montana, and author of Forty Years on the Frontier, married an Indian woman. When she died he married another. E. C. Abbot, known as "Teddy Blue," and also a prominent Montana rancher, married one of Stuart's daughters. In his book We Pointed Them North he said that all white men had ever known who were married to Indian women "thought the world of them." Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the authority on the American Indian, was happily married to an Indian woman.
While it was true that some white men deserted their Indian wives when white women came to the frontier country, the majority of them remained loyal.
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