title: Old Man Coyote: The Authorized Edition
author: Frank B. Linderman
description: Trickster and transformer, powerful and vulnerable, Coyote is a complex figure in Indian legend. He was often the ultimate example of how not to be: foolish, proud, self-important. The tales in Old Man Coyote were told by the Crow Indians of present-day southeastern Montana. During long winter evenings by the lodge fire, they enjoyed hearing about the only warrior ever to visit the Bird Country, the Little-people who adopted a lost boy, the two-faced tribe that gambled for keeps, the marriage of Worm-face, and the origin of the buffalo. Wandering through these well-spun tales is the irrepressible Old Man Coyote, sometimes scoring a coup, sometimes getting his comeuppance.
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  Bowser The Hound
  
  
  
  
  
  [CHAPTER I. OLD MAN COYOTE LEADS BOWSER AWAY  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER II. OLD MAN COYOTE PLAYS A TRICK  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER III. WHAT HAPPENED TO BOWSER  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER IV. POOR BOWSER  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER V. BOWSER SPENDS A BAD NIGHT  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER VI. THE SURPRISE OF BLACKY THE CROW  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER VII. BLACKY THE CROW TAKES PITY ON BOWSER  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER VIII. HOW BLACKY THE CROW HELPED BOWSER  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER IX. OLD MAN COYOTE GIVES OUT DARK HINTS  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER X. HOW REDDY FOX INVESTIGATED  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER XI. A LITTLE UNPLEASANTNESS  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER XII. THE CLEVERNESS OF OLD MAN COYOTE  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER XIII. THE MISCHIEVOUS LITTLE NIGHT BREEZE  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER XIV. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BEING INSIDE AND OUTSIDE  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER XV. REDDY'S FORLORN CHANCE  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER XVI. WHY REDDY WENT WITHOUT A CHICKEN DINNER  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER XVII. FARMER BROWN'S BOY DROPS A PAN OF CORN  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER XVIII. MUTUAL RELIEF  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER XIX. WHERE WAS BOWSER