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Myths and Legends of California & the Old Southwest - Edited by Katharine Berry Judson

A sweeping collection which includes creation myths, morality tales, and traditional stories from the Zuni, Pima, Paiute, Shastika, and Miwok peoples. Illustrated, New - Paperback 

Myths and Civilization of the Native Americans by M. Wood

This book offers readers a beautiful blend of history and mythology - providing a new approach to exploring the Native Americans. This book retells a selection of important myths, using dramatic illustrations and supplementing them with historical and cultural information, including realistic maps and diagrams.

Mammoth Book of the West by Jon E. Lewis

Jon E. Lewis vividly depicts the pioneers, the onrush of the cattle barons, the coming of the lawmen and the tragic demise of the Plains Indians.  Heroes and villains - including Sitting Bull, Doc Holliday, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Crazy Horse and Custer - are often revealed in startling new light, and a host of minor characters are rescued from obscurity.  One, the Californian gunfighter Walter J. Crow, killed more men in "gundowns' than Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid, Jesse James and Wild Bill Hickok combined. 

Zuni and the American Imagination by Eliza McFeely

Located on the Zuni River west of the Continental Divide and 35 miles south of Gallup, New Mexico , Zuni Pueblo exists in two spheres: a real, changing, historical one and an imaginative one that has drawn from and transformed the real one repeatedly. In 1540 its existence as Cibola, one of the famed seven cities, grew from Coronado's futile search for fabulous wealth. Shakespeare's The Tempest seems to reflect some of the stories of Zuni. But it was in the 19th century that Zuni became a central location for the growing discipline of anthropology. The work of the early anthropologists would later influence Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land, and Edmund Wilson's Red, Black, Blond and Olive.

Eliza McFeely makes these points in Zuni and the American Imagination by examining the work of three lesser-known anthropologists -- Matilda Coxe Stevenson, Frank Hamilton Cushing, and Stewart Culin -- who visited Zuni around the turn of the century and whose differing approaches and understandings of Zuni enhanced the imaginative perceptions that others developed about the real place and its inhabitants. New - Hardback.

Native American Tales and Legends, by Allan A. Macfarlan

This exciting collection contains more than thirty richly imaginative stories from a variety of Native American sources, as well as creation myths, hero tales, and trickster stories, as well as tales of little people, giants and monsters, and of magic, enchantment, sorcery, and the spirit world.  Paperback, copyright, 1968, published 2001.

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Native American Photo Prints  - Vintage photographs of famous chiefs, heroes, and Indian life in the 19th century.