Myths and Legends of Our Own Land

Complete

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• Publisher: The Floating Press
• eBook ISBN:
  9781776530298
• Year: 2014

Table of contents

• MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF OUR OWN LAND
• Contents
• Preface
• THE HUDSON AND ITS HILLS
• Rip Van Winkle
• Catskill Gnomes
• The Catskill Witch
• The Revenge of Shandaken
• Condemned to the Noose
• Big Indian
• The Baker's Dozen
• The Devil's Dance-Chamber
• The Culprit Fay
• Pokepsie
• Dunderberg
• Anthony's Nose
• Moodua Creek
• A Trapper's Ghastly Vengeance
• The Vanderdecken of Tappan Zee
• The Galloping Hessian
• Storm Ship of the Hudson
• Why Spuyten Duyvil is so Named
• The Ramapo Salamander
• Chief Croton
• The Retreat from Mahopac
• Niagara
• The Deformed of Zoar
• Horseheads
• Kayuta and Waneta
• The Drop Star
• The Prophet of Palmyra
• A Villain's Cremation
• The Monster Mosquitoe
• The Green Picture
• The Nuns of Carthage
• The Skull in the Wall
• The Haunted Mill
• Old Indian Face
• The Division of the Saranacs
• An Event in Indian Park
• The Indian Plume
• Birth of the Water-Lily
• Rogers's Slide
• The Falls at Cohoes
• Francis Woolcott's Night-Riders
• Polly's Lover
• Crosby, the Patriot Spy
• The Lost Grave of Paine
• The Rising of Gouverneur Morris
• THE ISLE OF MANHATTOES AND NEARBY
• Dolph Heyliger
• The Knell at the Wedding
• Roistering Dirck Van Dara
• The Party from Gibbet Island
• Miss Britton's Poker
• The Devil's Stepping-Stones
• The Springs of Blood and Water
• The Crumbling Silver
• The Cortelyou Elopement
• Van Wempel's Goose
• The Weary Watcher
• The Rival Fiddlers
• Wyandank
• Mark of the Spirit Hand
• The First Liberal Church
• ON AND NEAR THE DELAWARE
• The Phantom Dragoon
• Delaware Water Gap
• The Phantom Drummer
• The Missing Soldier of Valley Forge
• The Last Shot at Germantown
• A Blow in the Dark
• The Tory's Conversion
• Lord Percy's Dream
• Saved by the Bible
• Parricide of the Wissahickon
• The Blacksmith at Brandywine
• Father and Son
• The Envy of Manitou
• The Last Revel in Printz Hall
• The Two Rings
• Flame Scalps of the Chartiers
• The Consecration of Washington
• TALES OF PURITAN LAND
• Evangaline
• The Snoring of Swunksus
• The Lewiston Hermit
• The Dead Ship of Harpswell
• The Schoolmaster Had Not Reached Orrington
• Jack Welch's Death Light
• The Lady Ursula
• Father Moody's Black Veil
• The Home of Thunder
• The Partridge Witch
• The Marriage of Mount Katahdin
• The Moose of Mount Kineo
• The Owl Tree
• A Chestnut Log
• The Watcher on White Island
• Chocorua
• Passaconaway's Ride to Heaven
• The Ball Game by the Saco
• The White Mountains
• The Vision on Mount Adams
• The Great Carbuncle
• Skinner's Cave
• Yet They Call it Lover's Leap
• Salem and Other Witchcraft
• The Gloucester Leaguers
• Satan and His Burial-Place
• Peter Rugg, the Missing Man
• The Loss of Weetamoo
• The Fatal Forget-Me-Not
• The Old Mill at Somerville
• Edward Randolph's Portrait
• Lady Eleanore's Mantle
• Howe's Masquerade
• Old Esther Dudley
• The Loss of Jacob Hurd
• The Hobomak
• Berkshire Tories
• The Revenge of Josiah Breeze
• The May-Pole of Merrymount
• The Devil and Tom Walker
• The Gray Champion
• The Forest Smithy
• Wahconah Falls
• Knocking at the Tomb
• The White Deer of Onota
• Wizard's Glen
• Balanced Rock
• Shonkeek-Moonkeek
• The Salem Alchemist
• Eliza Wharton
• Sale of the Southwicks
• The Courtship of Myles Standish
• Mother Crewe
• Aunt Rachel's Curse
• Nix's Mate
• The Wild Man of Cape Cod
• Newbury's Old Elm
• Samuel Sewall's Prophecy
• The Shrieking Woman
• Agnes Surriage
• Skipper Ireson's Ride
• Heartbreak Hill
• Harry Main: The Treasure and the Cats
• The Wessaguscus Hanging
• The Unknown Champion
• Goody Cole
• General Moulton and the Devil
• The Skeleton in Armor
• Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket
• Love and Treason
• The Headless Skeleton of Swamptown
• The Crow and Cat of Hopkinshill
• The Old Stone Mill
• Origin of a Name
• Micah Rood Apples
• A Dinner and its Consequences
• The New Haven Storm Ship
• The Windam Frogs
• The Lamb of Sacrifice
• Moodus Noises
• Haddam Enchantments
• Block Island and the Palatine
• The Buccaneer
• Robert Lockwood's Fate
• Love and Rum
• LIGHTS AND SHADOWS OF THE SOUTH
• The Swim at Indian Head
• The Moaning Sisters
• A Ride for a Bride
• Spooks of the Hiawassee
• Lake of the Dismal Swamp
• The Barge of Defeat
• Natural Bridge
• The Silence Broken
• Siren of the French Broad
• The Hunter of Calawassee
• Revenge of the Accabee
• Toccoa Falls
• Two Lives for One
• A Ghostly Avenger
• The Wraith Ringer of Atlanta
• The Swallowing Earthquake
• Last Stand of the Biloxi
• The Sacred Fire of Nachez
• Pass Christian
• The Under Land
• THE CENRAL STATES AND THE GREAT LAKES
• An Averted Peril
• The Obstinacy of Saint Clair
• The Hundredth Skull
• The Crime of Black Swamp
• The House Accursed
• Michel de Coucy's Troubles
• Wallen's Ridge
• The Sky Walker of Huron
• The Coffin of Snakes
• Mackinack
• Lake Superior Water Gods
• The Witch of Pictured Rocks
• The Origin of White-Fish
• The Spirit of Cloudy
• The Sun Fire at Sault Sainte Marie
• The Snake God of Belle Isle
• Were-Wolves of Detroit
• The Escape of Francois Navarre
• The Old Lodger
• The Nain Rouge
• Two Revenges
• Hiawatha
• The Indian Messiah
• The Vision of Rescue
• Devil's Lake
• The Keusca Elopement
• Pipestone
• The Virgins' Feast
• Falls of St. Anthony
• Flying Shadow and Track Maker
• Saved by a Lightning-Stroke
• The Killing of Cloudy Sky
• Providence Hole
• The Scare Cure
• Twelfth Night at Cahokia
• The Spell of Creve Ciur Lake
• How the Crime was Revealed
• Banshee of the Bad Lands
• Standing Rock
• The Salt Witch
• ALONG THE ROCKY RANGE
• Over the Divide
• The Phantom Train of Marshall Pass
• The River of Lost Souls
• Riders of the Desert
• The Division of Two Tribes
• Besieged by Starvation
• A Yellowstone Tragedy
• The Broad House
• The Death Waltz
• The Flood at Santa Fe
• Goddess of Salt
• The Coming of the Navajos
• The Ark on Superstition Mountains
• The Pale Faced Lightning
• The Weird Sentinel at Squaw Peak
• Sacrifice of the Toltecs
• Ta-Vwots Conquers the Sun
• The Comanche Rider
• Horned Toad and Giants
• The Spider Tower
• The Lost Trail
• A Battle in the Air
• ON THE PACIFIC COAST
• The Voyager of Whulge
• Tamanous of Tacoma
• The Devil and the Dalles
• Cascades of the Columbia
• The Death of Umatilla
• Hunger Valley
• The Wrath of Manitou
• The Spook of Misery Hill
• The Queen of Death Valley
• Bridal Veil Fall
• The Governor's Right Eye
• The Prisoner in American Shaft
• AS TO BURIED RICHES
• Kidd's Treasure
• Other Buried Wealth
• STORIED WATERS, CLIFFS AND MOUNTAINS
• Monsters and Sea-Serpents
• Stone-Throwing Devils
• Storied Springs
• Lovers' Leaps
• God on the Mountains