The Basket Woman: A Book of Indian Tales for Children - Softcover

Austin, Mary Hunter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1515105954 ISBN 13: 9781515105954

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

The homesteader's cabin stood in a moon-shaped hollow between the hills and the high mesa; and the land before it stretched away golden and dusky green, and was lost in a blue haze about where the river settlements began. The hills had a flowing outline and melted softly into each other and higher hills behind, until the range broke in a ragged crest of thin peaks white with snow. A clean, wide sky bent over that country, and the air that moved in it was warm and sweet.

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About the Author:

One of the early nature writers of the American Southwest, Mary Hunter Austin’s many classics including The Land of Little Rain (1903) describe the fauna, flora and people – as well as evoking the mysticism and spirituality – of the region between the High Sierras and the Mojave Desert of southern California. "All of these stories are so nearly true that you need not be troubled in the least about believing them." So begins author Mary Austin in the preface to her 1904 collection of "fanciful tales for children" of the myths and legends of the first peoples of the Sierra Nevada and Yosemite region. Austin, an amateur naturalist and a keen observer of human influence on the landscape, here regales us with the charming stories of: "The Basket Woman" · "The Stream That Ran Away" "The Cheerful Glacier" "The Christmas Tree" "The Fire Bringer" "The White-Barked Pine" and others. American author MARY HUNTER AUSTIN (1868-1934) wrote numerous novels, poems, plays, and works of criticism, much of it centered on feminist, environmental, and multicultural issues. She is best remembered for her writing on matters concerning Native American rights and the deserts of the American Southwest.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1515105954
• ISBN 13: 9781515105954
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 68