He was known as “Indian Charlie.”
His real name was Charles Curtis.
And he was Vice President under Herbert Hoover ….
after serving in the House of Representatives from 1893-1907,
and the US Senate from 1915 to 1929.
He was as American as you can get.
He was born in Kansas a year before it became a state.
His mother was a Native of the Kaw, Osage, Potawatomi, and French
Steve Levi is an Alaskan writer who specializes in the Alaska Gold Rush (nonfiction) and the ‘impossible crime,’ (fiction.) An ‘impossible crime’ is one where the detective must figure out HOW the crime was committed before going after the perpetrators – like a Greyhound bus with bank robbers and hostages disappearing off the Golden Gate Bridge –THE MATTER OF THE VANISHING GREYHOUND. Steve’s books can be found at www.authormasterminds.com/steve-levi
