Clinton Hart Merriam

Description of a Newly-born Lynx

Collected Reprints

Circular on the Food-habits of Birds

Family Geomyidæ (exclusive of the Species of Thomomys)

... Monographic Revision of the Pocket Gophers

Harvey Washington Wiley

Durability and Economy in Papers for Permanent Records

The stories collected here were related by the Miwok elders "after the first rains of the winter season, usually in the ceremonial roundhouse and always at night by the dim light of a flickering fire". Included are creation myths and accounts of the First People, beings who antedated humans, as well as tales about animals, death, ghosts, witches, giants, and natural phenomena. Photos.

Myths and Tales of the Miwok Indians of California

The Dawn of the World

Leonhard Stejneger

Results of a Biological Survey of the San Francisco Mountain Region and Desert of the Little Colorado, Arizona

Indian Names for Plants and Animals Among Californian and Other Western North American Tribes

Alaska: Narrative, glaciers, natives, by J. Burroughs, J. Muir and G.B. Grinnell

Charles Sheldon

Originally published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1930, The Wilderness of Denali is a memoir of three years of hunting the area of Alaska surrounding Mt. McKinley. It is a classic of American adventure a book written by a man who was willing to risk his life in pursuit of grizzly bears and the elusive mountain sheep. The account was written each night by campfire as Sheldon discovered what is still regarded as the most scenic wilderness in America."

Explorations of a Hunter-naturalist in Northern Alaska

The Wilderness of Denali

Clinton Hart Merriam

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