THE FIRE BIRD
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
| PAGE | |
| PART I | |
| The Love Dance of Princess Yiada | [1] |
| PART II | |
| Coüy-oüy and Mountain Lion | [22] |
| PART III | |
| Yiada's Flight to the Mandanas | [49] |
| Princess Yiada and the Medicine Man | [Frontispiece] |
| FACING PAGE | |
| Coüy-oüy and Mountain Lion | [22] |
| Star Face and Dove Eye | [49] |
