They are given as near to the Indians' mode of telling as possible.

They are wonderfully different from certain stories recently published in current magazines, professing to be Legends of Lake Tahoe.

These latter are pure fiction, and to those familiar with Indian thought, reveal their origin in the imaginative brain of white writers who have but faint conceptions of Indian mentality.

Mrs.Price is a graduate of Stanford University, and took great pains to preserve the Indians' exact mode of expression.

As she herself writes: Long before the white man saw and wondered over the beauty of Tahoe, theorizing over its origin and concocting curious tales about its "unfathomable" depths, the Indians knew and loved it.