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American wonderland / By Richard Meade Bache, author of "The young wrecker of the Florida reef," etc.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection E98.F6 B3 1871
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bache, Richard Meade.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children's stories.
- Indians of North America--Juvenile fiction.
- Indians of North America.
- People with disabilities--Juvenile fiction.
- People with disabilities.
- Animals--Juvenile fiction.
- Animals.
- Missing children--Juvenile fiction.
- Missing children.
- Magicians--Juvenile fiction.
- Magicians.
- Giants (Folklore)--Juvenile fiction.
- Giants (Folklore).
- Giants.
- Orphanages--Juvenile fiction.
- Orphanages.
- Orphans--Juvenile fiction.
- Orphans.
- Hunting stories.
- Birds--Juvenile fiction.
- Birds.
- Genre:
- Hunting stories.
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Burr, Charles W. (Charles Walts), 1861- (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 258 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Claxton, Remsen, and Haffelfinger, 1871.
- Contents:
- The hunter that killed the king of the rattlesnakes
- Iola and the king of the Buffaloes
- The hawk and the tortoise
- The good mother
- White plume, the giant-killer
- The three cranberries
- Lelina and her green plumed lover
- Kwasind, the fearfully strong man
- Old winter and young spring
- The good princess and the bad princess
- Mudjee Monedo, the ogre
- The lynx and the hare
- The scarlet swan
- The story of Harka
- The white-fish
- The hunter that journeyed to the home of the sun
- Mother Kway and her beautiful daughter
- The Linnet and the eagle
- The three magic arrows
- Wassamo the fire-plume
- The wind and the duck
- The ill-fated lovers
- Paukewis, the wizard
- The spirit of the maize
- Chaske the wanderer
- The demon's compact
- The road to paradise
- The two ghosts
- Broken wing and the orphaned brood
- The boy that snared the sun
- Mishosha, the magician of the lake.
- Notes:
- Copyright 1871 by Claxton, Remson, and Haffelfinger.
- "Philadelphia: Collins, printer."--verso of title page. Probably the work of Samuel C. Collins, who was active as a printer in 1871.
- Bound in orange cloth; stamped in gold and blind; brown coated endpapers.
- OCLC:
- 819855
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