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.

Lovers' Leaps

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

Lovers' Leaps

O few States in this c country-and so few countries, if it comes to that are without a lover's leap that the very name has come to be a…

Lovers' Leaps: Indian

At Jump Mountain, near Lexington, Virginia, an Indian couple sprang off because there were insuperable bars to their marriage. At the rock…

Lovers' Leaps: Chattanooga

Some years before the outbreak of civil war a man with his wife and daughter took up their residence in a log cabin at the foot of Sunrise…

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