George Crawford Merrick Mullett was for several years a regular contributor of stories to St. Nicholas magazine and other periodicals for children. Her lifelong interest in American Indians dated from her childhood in the Serpent Mound area of Ohio. It was enhanced by her association with Jesse Walter Fewkes with whom she worked as a scientific illustrator for the Bureau of Ethnology, the Smithsonian Institution, from 1910 to 1928.