California: The Land of the Sun

California: The Land of the Sun For a graphic and memorable report of the contours of any...
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Author: Austin, Mary,1868-1934
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Language: English
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California: The Land of the Sun

California: The Land of the Sun

$15.43

California: The Land of the Sun

$15.43
Author: Austin, Mary,1868-1934
Format: eBook
Language: English

California: The Land of the Sun

For a graphic and memorable report of the contours of any country, see always the aboriginal account of its making. That will give you the lie of the land as no geographer could sketch it forth for you. California was made by Padahoon the Sparrow-Hawk and the Little Duck, who brooded on the face of the waters in the Beginning of Things. There is no knowing where the tale comes from, for Winnenap the Medicine-Man who told it to me, was eclectic in his faiths as in his practice. Winnenap was a Shoshone, one of the group who had been forced southward into Death Valley when the great Pah Ute nation had split their tribes like a wedge. In the last of their wars he had been taken as a hostage by the Paiutes and brought up by them. He might have remembered [4] the story, or his wife might have told him. She was a tall brown woman out of Tejon, and her mother was of that band of captives taken from San Gabriel by the Mojaves, Mission-bred. Wherever it came from, the tale has its roots deep in the land it explains. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 44764
Author: Austin, Mary
Release Date: Jan 26, 2014
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Illustrator: Palmer, Sutton, 1854-1933

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