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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The whistling skeleton The whistling skeleton John Bierhorst,Robert Andrew Parker,George Bird Grinnell Includes nine mystery tales told by Pawnee, Blackfoot, and Cheyenne storytellers in the late nineteenth century. OL18013318W
The Horse Story Megapack The Horse Story Megapack Katherine Mayo,F. Anstey,Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.,Bret Harte,Henry Lawson,William Henry Harrison Murray,Arthur Conan Doyle,Mary Wickizer Burgess,Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen,Mark Twain,Ambrose Bierce,William Butler Yeats,Adam White,Amy Steedman,William Dean Howells,Jonathan Swift,Anna Sewell,Thomas Bingley,John Hay,Robert Reginald,Sewell Ford,George Bird Grinnell,Voltaire,Djuna Barnes,H. Beam Piper,A. B. Paterson,Plutarch,Eugene Field,William Hope Hodgson,Mark E. Burgess The horse has been championed throughout history as a war machine, a means of transport, an adjunct to farming, a source of popular entertainment, and, finally, as a true friend and companion. So it'… OL19336173W
The passing of the Great West The passing of the Great West George Bird Grinnell Account of a naturalist who was hired as a camp meat hunter on expeditions into Indian country with Gen. George A. Custer. Illness prevented him form joining Custer's last expedition. Interesting… OL2343399W
Blackfoot Lodge Tales Blackfoot Lodge Tales George Bird Grinnell This collection of powerful stories reveals the complex and wondrous world of the Blackfoot nation in the nineteenth century. The thirty tales transcribed by George Bird Grinnell provide an intimate … OL2343424W