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The Time of the Indian
Describes the civilizations developed by the North American Indians and their eventual downfall brought about by the coming of the white people.
48 pages, Paperback
First published June 30, 1975
About the author
Kenneth Ulyatt
14 booksKenneth Raymond Peters Ulyatt lived latterly in Poole, Dorset.
He attended art college prior to World War II, during which he served in the RAF, seeing action in the Middle East. It was there that he met his future wife, Pat.
After the war he returned to England and worked as a commercial artist, as well as helping out in his parents' public house in Chesham, Buckinghamshire. He and Pat moved to Poole in the late 1960s.
He had a great interest in art, jazz, literature and movies, particularly westerns, and the old west, which he began writing about in the mid-1960s.
He said of himself: "I have always been lucky enough to earn my living at the two things I most like doing - writing and drawing. And I have always been interested in the frontier days in America; both as a boy, when I was a keen scout and camper, and later, when I began reading the history of the West rather than its fiction. When TV came along and we watched westerns, my children would ask me: `Was it really like that?' and as often as not I would have to say `no.' So I began to write my
first western: a story in which the Indians did not bite the dust and the cavalry were defeated. It was a true story.
"And I think that it was because I tried hard to make that past, which
I found so exciting, vibrant for young readers that the Portugee Phillips trilogy became so successful. The subject of the West, too, transcends frontiers. Portugee Phillips now rides in nine European countries, from Finland to Italy."
He died in Poole on 8 November 2008, aged 88.
He attended art college prior to World War II, during which he served in the RAF, seeing action in the Middle East. It was there that he met his future wife, Pat.
After the war he returned to England and worked as a commercial artist, as well as helping out in his parents' public house in Chesham, Buckinghamshire. He and Pat moved to Poole in the late 1960s.
He had a great interest in art, jazz, literature and movies, particularly westerns, and the old west, which he began writing about in the mid-1960s.
He said of himself: "I have always been lucky enough to earn my living at the two things I most like doing - writing and drawing. And I have always been interested in the frontier days in America; both as a boy, when I was a keen scout and camper, and later, when I began reading the history of the West rather than its fiction. When TV came along and we watched westerns, my children would ask me: `Was it really like that?' and as often as not I would have to say `no.' So I began to write my
first western: a story in which the Indians did not bite the dust and the cavalry were defeated. It was a true story.
"And I think that it was because I tried hard to make that past, which
I found so exciting, vibrant for young readers that the Portugee Phillips trilogy became so successful. The subject of the West, too, transcends frontiers. Portugee Phillips now rides in nine European countries, from Finland to Italy."
He died in Poole on 8 November 2008, aged 88.
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