In The Reign of Coyote (Illustrated)

In The Reign of Coyote is a collection of Indian tales drawn from folklore of the Pacific Coast Native Americans. Coyote, wisest of the four-footed creatures, holds chief place among the animals that assist in bringing blessings on the people of the earth. The Creation of the World, The Cricket and the Cougar, The Frog in the Moon, Old Deer and Old Grizzly, and The Story of the Pleiades are some of the stories told here. Profusely illustrated.

Katherine Agnes Chandler was born in San Francisco in 1865. She was a librarian associated with the Pacific Northwest and California (she contributed articles for the San Francisco Chronicle); she published books for 2nd and 3rd grade schoolchildren about California wildflowers: Habits of California Plants, 1903; and As California Wild Flowers Grow: Suggestions to Nature Lovers, 1922; Native folktales: In the reign of Coyote: Folklore from the Pacific Coast, 1905; Sacagawea The Bird-Woman of the Lewis and Clark Expedition; and William Clark's Servant York.

Katherine Chandler died in 1930 in Los Gatos, California, and is buried at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma.

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