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Indian stories of the southwest / by Elizabeth Judson Roberts ; illustrations by Ben Ward.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Roberts, Elizabeth Judson, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America--California, Southern--Folklore.
- Indians of North America.
- Indians of North America--California, Southern.
- Legends--California, Southern.
- Legends.
- Roberts, Elizabeth Judson--Travel--California, Southern.
- Roberts, Elizabeth Judson.
- Travel.
- Southern California.
- Genre:
- Folklore.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Brosius, Samuel M., 1851-1936 (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Roberts, Elizabeth Judson (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 258 pages, [12] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
- Other Title:
- Indian stories of the south west
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : Harr Wagner Publishing Co., 1917.
- Contents:
- One afternoon drive
- The Eagle Man
- Crisosta's second story
- The romance of the painted rock
- A visit to the fiesta and the story it brought
- Chaup, the spirit of the shooting star
- Manuella's story
- The skull in the canon
- A drive up the valley
- When Venadita was young
- Our camping trip
- Narcissi's story
- The buried treasure
- Chicken tamales
- Land of this life.
- Notes:
- Indian sources include Crisosta, Talleyah, Old Morales, Angusta, Ramunda, Manuella, Marie Louise, Narcissi, and Felicita.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2019 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy has on front free endpaper dated 20th-century manuscript inscription ("Samuel M. Brosius. With pleasant memories of our talk in my San Pasqual house, about our Indian friends. Elizabeth J. Roberts. Oct. 1, 1917.") recording the gift of this volume to Samuel M. Brosius from the author on 1 October 1917.
- OCLC:
- 10027138
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