The story of the white boy who runs away from Civilization with his Indian brother appears often in American literary history from Natty Bumpo to the Lone Ranger, but McNichols tells a more mature story than ether of these... "Crazy Weather" is an important document in our cultural history." - "Western American Literature." A naval aviator in World War I who later worked in the movies and wrote for magazines, Charles L McNichols will always be remembered for "Crazy Weather", originally published in 1944 and his only book-length work of fiction. For this Bison Book edition Natachee Scott Momaday of Jemez Springs, New Mexico, has provided an introduction. She is the author of "Owl in the Cedar Tree", also a Bison Book (1992).