PREFACE
Some of the tales contained in this book have already been published in the San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Sunset, Popular Educator, Children's World, and Good Housekeeping.
The stories from Lower California, as related by Tecla, were told to me by Mrs. Jules Simoneau of Monterey, California, who is an Indian from Mazatlan. The sources of those chapters containing stories of Alta California are as follows: "Old Deer and Old Grizzly," Albert Samuel Gatschet in The United States Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region Contributions to North American Ethnology, II, Part I, 118; "Why the Coyote is so Cunning," Stephen Powers, III, 35; "How the Animals secured Fire," 38; "Coyote's Ride on a Star," 39; "How the Animals secured Light," 182; "Why the Bat is Blind," 343; "The Creation of Man," 358; "The Creation of the World," 273, and J. Owen Dorsey in The American Anthropologist, II, 38; "The Story of the Pleiades," Alexander S. Taylor in The California Farmer, "Indianology of California," January
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