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    Legends of Southern California and San Francisco
    Legends of Southern California and San Francisco
    Legends of Southern California and San Francisco
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    Legends of Southern California and San Francisco

    By Linda Pendleton

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    In 1919, George W. Caldwell, M.D., published his collections of Native American legend. It was published as Legends of Southern California and Legends of San Francisco, and the two collections have been combined for this edition, with a new Introduction by Linda Pendleton.

    Dr. Caldwell had an appreciation for the beauty of the Golden State for the Native American legends of love and life that have carried forward for generations.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLinda Pendleton
    Release dateOct 23, 2011
    ISBN9781465820662
    Legends of Southern California and San Francisco
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    Linda Pendleton

    Linda Pendleton has written in a variety of genres: nonfiction, mystery novels, nonfiction ecourses, comic book scripting, and screenplays. She coauthored nonfiction and fiction with her late husband, renowned author, Don Pendleton, including the popular nonfiction books, To Dance With Angels, and Whispers From the Soul. A few of her other nonfiction books are A Walk Through Grief; Three Principles of Angelic Wisdom; A Small Drop of Ink. Her fiction work includes her novels, The Unknown; Sound of Silence; Deadly Flare-Up; Roulette, The Search for the Sunrise Killer by Don and Linda Pendleton; her Catherine Winter Mystery series, Shattered Lens; Fractured Image; Shifting Focus; Corn Silk Days, Iowa, 1862; The Bold Trail, A Samuel Garrison Western. She has won awards for her ebooks. Linda is a former member of The Authors Guild, and EPIC Authors. SAhe is currently a member of Sisters in Crime and Western Fictioneers. Four of her early ebooks won Epic Awards. Although most of her time is devoted to her love of writing, she also enjoys the exploration of her family's genealogical roots. Linda's book covers are designed with Judy Bullard. They have worked together for nearly two decades. Check out Judy's book cover gallery at http://www.customebookcovers.com. Judy is listed as one of Smashwords suggested cover designers.

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      Legends of Southern California and San Francisco - Linda Pendleton

      INTRODUCTION

      The human mind has in all ages sought a reasonable explanation for natural phenomena. The modern mind demands scientific demonstration, but primitive mind was perforce obliged to deduce a fanciful explanation based upon the supernatural, which was at least satisfying to his religious instinct.

      Such tales were handed down from generation to generation. Some of them, like the ones herein related, were not readily confided to the white trespassers on their territory, and hence have to this time remained unpublished.

      The following stories are founded on legends of

      the Soboba Indians of Southern California, with the exception of the one entitled The Echo which refers to the tribe whose hunting grounds were in the region of the Merced River.

      The legend entitled The Blue Lizard is the Indian explanation of the curious fact that the Blue Lizard is found only in the region of the San Jacinto mountains at an elevation exceeding 1800 feet above sea level.

      The legend entitled The Rumbling of Tauquitz is the Indian explanation for the mysterious noises, coming from the depths of the mountain, which are occasionally heard. It may be interesting to mention that the rumblings of Tauquitz have been studied on the spot for months at a time by Government and University savants, but they have been unable to agree upon an explanation.

      In the legend entitled The Lights of Elsinore is found the Indian explanation for the will-o'-the-wisps that sometimes appear over the marshy ground at the lower end of the lake, and also for the small white flower which they believe grows only in that locality.

      In other legends the animals are endowed with human attributes and supernatural wisdom. They possess the especial confidence of the Great Spirit, and under certain circumstances hold converse with the Medicine Man. To this day, educated as the Indian has become, when a question of great importance is before the council and its decision is preplexing, a conclusion will not be made until the Medicine Man has gone into the wilds at night and consulted the Coyote, the Puma or other wild animal. When the Medicine Man has received a communication from the Great Spirit, through the intermediary of a wild creature, no Indian will dare oppose his mere human judgment against such an authoritative revelation.

      If in the translation we have lost the sonorous measure of the original as related by the Indian himself, we have at least endeavored to follow his poetic imagery, and to preserve, through the medium of printed pages, a few of the beautiful legends of a vanishing people.

      CONTENTS

      The Lights of Elsinore

      The Stepping Stones

      The Echo

      Arrowhead Hot Springs

      The Blue Lizard of San Jacinto

      The Rumblings of Tarquitz

      The Prince of Plenty

      How the Road Runner Won His Red Feather

      THE LIGHTS OF ELSINORE

      Theca was an Indian Princess,

      Daughter of the haughty Tondo,

      Chief of all the brave Sobobas,

      In the dim and distant ages

      When they ruled the broad savannahs,

      From the mountains to the ocean.

      Fairest was she of the maidens,

      Fairest of the comely maidens

      Of the tribe of the Sobobas;

      Tall and slender, Hthe and graceful,

      Flashing eyes of midnight splendor,

      Laughing eyes, yet kind and tender.

      Braids of glossy raven tresses

      Fell Uke heavenly caresses

      On her sloping sun-kissed shoulders.

      To her Father came the warriors,

      Youthful, brave and handsome warriors,

      Asking for the hand of Theca,

      Fairest of Soboba maidens;

      Brought their gifts of furs and ponies,

      Gifts of gaily painted ollas,

      Laid their wealth of beads of turquoise,

      Laid them at the feet of Tondo,

      Asking for the hand in marriage

      Of his peerless only daughter.

      When the suitors came before her,

      Theca saw not one among them

      Who could cause her heart to flutter

      With the tender recognition

      Of the mate whom she had dreamed of;

      Would not listen to their pleading,

      Turned her face with scorning from them.

      Then came Palo, Prince of Pala,

      Straight and slender, like an arrow.

      Small of hip and wide of shoulder.

      Holding high his head, commanding

      With a glance of eyes where smouldered

      Hidden fires of love, which only

      His beloved could uncover.

      When her eyes at first beheld him,

      In her heart there came a tumult,

      Swelling in her breast with rapture.

      Ran she with glad cries to meet him,

      Lifted up her face to greet him.

      You have come at last, she murmured

      "The ideal of my dreaming;

      Long and patiently I waited,

      I have loved and loved you only,

      I shall wed and wed you only,

      I am yours and yours forever."

      And you are mine, he said, and held her.

      Close within his arms he held her.

      To his throbbing heart he held her,

      Pressed her, kissed her and caressed her.

      While the tears of love were falling,

      Souls within them both were calling.

      To each other they were mated

      When the things that are were fated.

      And predestined by the Spirit

      Ruling in the earth and heavens.

      Hand in hand they went to Tondo,

      Haughty Chief of the Sobobas,

      Went to tell him the glad tidings

      Of their love so pure and sacred,

      Of their happiness so holy,

      Of their bright hopes for the future,

      Went with fond hearts gaily singing

      Of the blessings love was bringing.

      Went to make their glad confessing,

      Eager for the Father's blessing.

      Tondo listened while a tempest

      Gathered on his furrowed features,

      While his blood-shot eyes with anger

      Flamed within their sunken sockets.

      Then he rose in pride and passion

      To his feet, and flushed with fury,

      Crushed with cruel words the future

      Of the children who would love him.

      What, he cried, "a child of Tondo

      Mate with any son of Pala,

      Ancient foes of the Sobobas,

      Victors in an ancient battle

      Fought between our Father's Fathers !

      Rather would I see my daughter

      Mated with a wild Coyote

      Than the Scion of the Pala!

      Never while the sun is swinging

      Through the heavens shall my daughter

      Mate with Palo, Prince of Pala!"

      Then the lovers, sad and weeping,

      Bowed their heads before the Chieftain,

      Left the Chieftain in his tepee.

      Hand in hand but broken hearted.

      Wandered in the cooling

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