Stories Told in the Wigwam (Illustrated)

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194 pp. "The following stories are some which old squaws, in their wigwams, have told over and over again to the young Indians gathered around the camp fires, in the backwoods of A merica, while the wolves howled in the distance, and the air was filled with the strange night-sounds, which only the forest knows. You will see running through them all a fanciful belief in Spirits, or Manitos, as the Indians call them; in magic; and in the ability of animals to talk, and take part in human affairs." Show more