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THE AMERICAN TRADITION IN LITERATURE
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The American tradition in literature / edited by George Pekins. . . [et al.]- 7th ed.
p. cm.
Bibliography: p.
Includes index
ISBN 0-07-557204.4 (v. 1)- ISBN 0-07-557208-7 (PBK: V.1)
1. American literature. 1. Perkins, George B., (date).
PS507.A62 1990
810.8- dc20 89-12492
The painting Schroon Mountain, Adirondacks by Thomas Cole is reproduced on the cover by courtesy of the cleveland musuem of art (Hinman B. Hurlburt Collection, 1335.17)
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A TALE OF THE SKY WORLD From Seneca Fiction, Legends, and Myths by Jeremiah Curtin and J. N. B. Hewitt. Bureau of American Ethnology, 32nd annual report. Washington, D.C., 1918. Reprinted by permission of Smithsonian institution press.
AT THE TIME OF THE WHITE DAWN from the Pima Indians by Frank Russell.
Bureau of American Ethnology, 26th Annual report. Washington, D.C., 1908. Reprinted by permission of smithsonian institution press.
WILLIAM BRADFORD From Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford, edited by Samuel Eliot Morison. Copyright 1952 by samuel eliot morison. reprinted by permission of alfred a. knopf, Inc.
WILLIAM BYHRD From William Byrd's History of the dividing lane betwixt virginia and north carolina, edited by W. K. Boyd. copyright 1929 by the north carolina historical commission. Reprinted by permission of the department of cultural resources, state of north carolina.
COYOTE AND BEAR From The Pawnee: Mythology, Part I, by George Ames Dorsey.