The Trail Book - With Illustrations by Milo Winter

Mary Austin, Milo Winter

• Publisher: Pook Press
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN:
  9781473380769
• Print ISBN:
  9781447477457
  9781447477785

The Trail Book – With Illustrations by Milo Winter is a lovely book containing the tales and adventures of two children in a museum written by Mary Austin. Here they discover the lives and folklore of Native Americans and the natural world around them. This book was originally published in 1918 and is considered a classic in American Nature writing. The book is decorated with Milo Winter's fabulous ink drawing and coloured plates. Mary Hunter Austin (1868 – 1934) was an American writer. One of the early nature writers of the American Southwest, her classic The Land of Little Rain (1903) describes the fauna, flora and people – as well as evoking the mysticism and spirituality – of the region between the High Sierra and the Mojave Desert of southern California. She was a prolific novelist, poet, critic, and playwright, as well as an early feminist and defender of Native American and Spanish-American rights. Milo Winter (1888 – 1956) was an American illustrator of the Golden Age, who illustrated dozens of books throughout the 1910's, 20's and 30's and served as the art director of the Childcraft series. He was a master of animal drawings, which he could render anatomically accurate to the last detail. Other popular works containing his illustrative works include: Aesop's Fables for Children, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland and Through The Looking-Glass.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Dedication
• Contents
• Illustrations
• I How Oliver and Dorcas Jane found the Trail
• II What the Buffalo Chief told
• III How the Mastodon happened first to belong to a Man, as told by Arrumpa
• IV The Second Part of the Mastodon Story, concerning the Trail to the Sea and the Talking Stick of Taku-Wakin
• V How Howkawanda and Friend-at-the-Back found the Trail to the Buffalo Country; told by the Coyote
• VI Dorcas Jane hears how the Corn came to the Valley of the Missi-Sippu; told by the Corn Woman
• VII A Telling of the Salt Trail, of Tse-tse-yote and the Delight-Makers; told by Moke-icha
• VIII Young-Man-Who-Never-Turns-Back: A Telling of the Tallegewi, by one of them
• IX How the Lenni-Lenape came from Shinaki and the Tallegewi fought them: The Second Part of the Mound-Builder’s Story
• X The Making of a Shaman: A Telling of the Iroquois Trail, by the Onondaga
• XI The Pearls of Cofachique: How Lucas de Ayllon came to look for them and what the Cacica Far-Looking did to him; told by the Pelican
• XII How the Iron Shirts came to Tuscaloosa: A Telling of the Tribute Road by the Lady of Cofachique
• XIII How the Iron Shirts came looking for the Seven Cities of Cibola; told by the Road-Runner
• XIV How the Man of Two Hearts kept the Secret of the Holy Places; told by the Condor
• XV How the Medicine of the Arrows was broken at Republican River; told by the Chief Officer of the Dog Soldiers
• Appendix
• Glossary