The trail book
| dc.contributor.author | Austin, Mary Hunter, 1868-1934. | |
| dc.contributor.illustrator | Winter, Milo, 1888-1956. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2010-05-03T15:51:47Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2010-05-03T15:51:47Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1918 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In this collection of inter-related vignettes, two children, Oliver and Dorcas Jane, spend the night in a natural history museum where the dioramas come to life and the children enter a world of native cultures and experiences. Accompanied by color plates and illustrations by Milo Winter. Includes a glossary of Indian and Spanish names. | en_US |
| dc.description.tableofcontents | How Oliver and Dorcas Jane found the trail -- What the Buffalo Chief told -- How the mastodon happened first to belong to a man, as told by Arrumpa -- The second part of the mastodon story, concerning the trail to the sea and the talking stick of Taku-Wakin -- How Howkawanda and Friend-at-the-Back found the trail to the buffalo country; told by the Coyote -- Dorcas Jane hears how the corn came to the valley of the Missi-Sippu; told by the Corn Woman -- A telling of the salt trail, of Tse-tse-yote and the Delight Makers; told by Moke-icha -- Young-Man-Who-Never-Turns-Back: a telling of the Tallegewi, by one of them -- How the Lenni-Lenape came from Shinaki and the Tallegewi fought them: the second part of the Mound-Builder's story -- The making of a shaman: a telling of the Iroquois Trail, by the Onondaga -- The pearls of Cofachique: How Lucas de Ayllon came to look for them and what the Cacica Far-Looking did to him; told by the Pelican -- How the Iron Shirts came looking for the Seven Cities of Cibola; told by the Road-Runner -- How the Man of Two Hearts kept the secret of the holy places; told by the Condor -- How the medicine of the arrows was broken at Republican River; told by the Chief Officer of the Dog Soldiers. | en_US |
| dc.format | Text | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | [2], xi, [1], 304, [2] p. (first p. and last p. blank), [4] leaves of plates | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10605/286 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Company | en_US |
| dc.rights | The images in this collection are for study purposes, teaching, classroom projection and research only. To use these images in any form, an attribution of "Courtesy of the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library" must accompany the image. | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | American Museum of Natural History--Juvenile fiction. | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Indians of North America--Juvenile fiction. | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Nature stories, American. | en_US |
| dc.title | The trail book | en_US |
| dc.type | Book | en_US |