Excerpt from American Wonderland HE following Stories and Fables are a drawn from the ample stores of material, at first the heritage of the red man of America, and now the property of the white man, who alone is capable of giving them literary form. They have many a time been told before by those who have made a study of the mental traits and productions of the aborigines. The changes from the originals have been made with a free hand, always with the View to affording interesting and appropriate reading for the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.