Myths and Legends of Our Own Land

America's own folklore, collected county by county: the treasure and the cats at Harry Main's, the headless skeleton of Swamptown, the storm ship of New Haven, and several hundred more.

God on the Mountains

3 pages in this part of Myths and Legends of Our Own Land.

God on the Mountains

ROM the oldest time men have associated the mountains with visitations of God. Their height, their vastness, their majesty made them seem…

God on the Mountains: Manitou

The Catskills and Adirondacks were abodes of powerful beings, and the Highlands of the Hudson were a wall within which Manitou confined a…

God on the Mountains: Master

In his vision he saw a beautiful mountain country where birds and beasts and fruits were plenty, and, awaking from his sleep, he found that…

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