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- Title: Indian Stories Retold From St. Nicholas
- Author : Various Authors
- Release Date : January 01, 2012
- Genre: Historical,Books,Young Adult,Fiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 2140 KB
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This collection of Indian stories is the first in a series of volumes of historic tales retold from "St. Nicholas". This bird, which, according to the Indian legends, ate men, was known as the Piasau. The favorite haunt of this terrible bird was a bluff on the Mississippi River, a short distance above the site of the present city of Alton, Illinois. There it was said to lie in wait, and to keep watch over the broad, open prairies. Whenever some rash Indian ventured out alone to hunt upon this[2] fatal ground, he became the monster's prey. The legend says that the bird, swooping down with the fierce swiftness of a hawk, seized upon its victim and bore him to a gloomy cave wherein it made its horrid feasts.