legends

An Indian girl insults the moon and is held prisoner by him until her friend reaches the sky country to rescue her.

Recounts the story of the legendary steel driver of early railroad days who challenged the steam hammer to a steel-driving contest.

A Blackfoot Indian legend in which six neglected orphaned brothers decide to go to the Above World where they become the constellation of the "Lost Children, " or Pleiades.

Expands on a popular Mexican folktale about a ghost that haunts riverbanks at night, crying as she searches for her lost children.

Twenty folk tales explaining the creation of the world, how the pine nuts came, how the Indians got their music, and other traditions.

Retells a Tsimshian legend of an old man whose sight is restored by Loon. As a reward he gives the bird his precious shell necklace.

A retelling, in parallel English and Spanish text, of the traditional tale told in the Southwest and in Mexico of how the beautiful Maria became a ghost.

Relates some of the exploits of Pecos Bill, the extraordinary cowboy who was raised by coyotes, rode a mountain lion, and used a rattle snake as a rope.

Retells the legend of the African-American railroad builder who raced against a steam drill to cut through a mountain.

The story of the survival of two elderly women abandoned by a migrating tribe in the Arctic.