Contents viii
The Romantic Temper and the House Divided 239
NATURE AND SOCIETY
THE NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE 250
TALES
The Chiefs Daughters 252
Coyote and Bear 253
ORATORY
Speech of Red Jacket 254
Speech of Red Cloud 256
POETRY
Twelfth Song of the Thunder 257
Formula to Destroy Life 258
The Corn Grows Up 258
At the Time of the White Dawn 258
Snake the Cause 259
Three Songs of Owl Woman 259
The Weaver's Lamentation 260
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins: Life Among the Piutes 260
Chapter 1: First Meeting of Piutes and Whites 260
WASHINGTON IRVING (1783-1859) 264
A History of New York, by Diedrich Knickerbocker 266
Book III: In Which Is Recorded the Golden Reign of Wouter
Van Twiller 266
THE SKETCH BOOK
Rip Van Winkle 273
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 284
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER (1789-1851) 302
The Deerslayer 305
Chapter XXVII ('The Young Deerslayer] 305
The Last of the Mohicans 310
Chapter XXXII (The Hawk-eye of the Indian Wars] 310
The Pioneers 315
Chapter XXII [Pigeons] 315
The Prairie 321
Chapter XXXIX [Death of a Hero] 321
The American Democrat 325
An Aristocrat and a Democrat 325