The Ahwahnee Legend: Kos-Soo-Kah and Tee-Hee-Neh; Lost Arrow of the Yosemite by Richard Shatka Bear-Step

(Dick Spencer, Inglewood, California; 1947). First Edition. Small Octavo. 30 pages, Illustrated by Carl Roehling. The Photo of Bear-Step was taken by Paul Denver Nelson. An Indian legend from the Miwoks of Yosemite with beautiful illustrations of the perhaps mythical lovers. A very attractive story and one of romance of a great love that was unfulfilled. A fine copy bound in pictorial paper covered boards lettered and decorated in light brown, white and black, in a near fine pictorial dust jacket with a small nick near spine and tiny closed tear. Often the richly colored dust jacket is lacking in this beautiful little book as it was produced very thin making it quite fragile.