Old Man Coyote : The Authorized Edition

Trickster and transformer, powerful and vulnerable, Coyote is a complex figure in Indian legend.

He was often the ultimate example of how not to be: foolish, proud, self-important.

The tales in Old Man Coyote were told by the Crow Indians of present-day southeastern Montana.

During long winter evenings by the lodge fire, they enjoyed hearing about the only warrior ever to visit the Bird Country, the Little-people who adopted a lost boy, the two-faced tribe that gambled for keeps, the marriage of Worm-face, and the origin of the buffalo.

Wandering through these well-spun tales is the irrepressible Old Man Coyote, sometimes scoring a coup, sometimes getting his comeuppance.