Front matter
Reading edition
BOOKS BY GENE STRATTON-PORTER Nature Books The Song of the Cardinal Friends in Feathers Birds of the Bible Music of the Wild Moths of the Limberlost Morning Face Homing With the Birds Nature Stories Freckles A Girl of the Limberlost At the Foot of the Rainbow The Harvester Laddie Michael O'Halloran A Daughter of the Land Her Father's Daughter The Fire Bird
"Medicine Man, O Medicine Man,
Make for me a new, a sure medicine
That will ease my scorched heart
Of the fire of a flaming red bird
And take from my tortured hands
Their burden of moon white lilies."
THE FIRE BIRD GENE STRATTON-PORTER, ILLUSTRATIONS BY GORDON GRANT DECORATIONS BY LEE THAYER GARDEN CITY, N. Y., AND TORONTO DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 1922
COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY GENE STRATTON-PORTER ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES AT THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y. First Edition
TO EDWARD SHERIFF CURTIS BLOOD BROTHER TO THE INDIANS BY CEREMONIAL SPIRIT BROTHER TO HIS FELLOW MEN BY BIRTH
CONTENTS
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PART I
The Love Dance of Princess Yiada1
PART II
Coüy-oüy and Mountain Lion22
PART III
Yiada's Flight to the Mandanas49
ILLUSTRATIONS
Princess Yiada and the Medicine ManFrontispiece
FACING PAGE
Coüy-oüy and Mountain Lion22
Star Face and Dove Eye49
THE FIRE BIRD
