Myths and Legends of the Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes

By Katharine Berry Judson · Running time 03:35:54 · Culture & Heritage Fiction, Nature & Animal Fiction

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It is a loss to American literature that so much of the legendary history of these Indian tribes has gone, beyond hope of recovery. Exquisite in color, poetical in feeling, these legends of sun, moon, and stars, of snow, ice, lightning, thunders, the winds, the life of the forest birds and animals about them, and the longing to understand the why and the how of life—all which we have only in fragments…. As in all the other volumes of this series, no effort has been made to ornament or amplify these legends in the effort to make them “literary,” or give them “literary charm.” They must speak fo

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