{"collection":"myth-cosmogony","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_52233/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_52233","id":"gutenberg_52233","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/52233","summary":null,"tags":["Category: History - Other","Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore","Indians of North America -- California -- Folklore","Pomo Indians -- Legends"],"text":"Transcriber\u2019s Notes:\n\nText enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_), and text\nenclosed by equal signs is in bold (=bold=).\n\nAdditional Transcriber\u2019s Notes are at the end.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE LEGEND OF DAH-NOL-YO, SQUAW ROCK\n\n\n  Compliments of\n  THE SAN FRANCISCO AND NORTH PACIFIC RAILWAY,\n  The Picturesque Route of California.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n[Illustration: POMO INDIAN IN DANCING COSTUME MADE FROM THE FEATHERS OF\nTHE EAGLE]\n\nFor forty-six miles THE SAN FRANCISCO AND NORTH PACIFIC RAILWAY, the\nPicturesque Route of California, skirts the Russian River. A few of the\nmany lovely views en-route are shown in this little _brochure_.\n\nThis beautiful country was once occupied by the Pomo Indians, a brave\nand flourishing tribe, of whom but very few families remain. Many of\nthe local features are hallowed by the Indian folk-lore. The legend of\nDah-nol-yo--Squaw Rock, so charmingly written by Mrs. H. M. Carpenter,\nof Ukiah, is presented to the reader.\n\n[Illustration: DAH-NOL-YO--SQUAW ROCK.]\n\n\n\n\nTHE LEGEND OF DAH-NOL-YO--SQUAW ROCK.\n\n\nAmong the many extant Indian Legends of Squaw Rock, none has\nappeared which relates to the face of stone, on the summit of this\nnoted mountain. The following is substantially as given by a direct\ndescendant of Con-che Tadi, a Pomo Chief, who lived in the shadow of\nDah-nol-yo, when time was young.\n\nThis Chief was particularly noted for preserving the peace and harmony\nof his own tribe and others with which he came in contact. His faithful\nsquaw Ma-cha-ta (Kingfisher) devoted her time to her two sons, Ca-ba-ba\n(Brave one) and Bu-tah-so (Little Bear); and as is the custom at the\npresent day, gathered the buckeye and acorn, as a means of subsistence,\nwhile her lord smoked his pipe or enjoyed a nap in the sunshine. As the\nsons approached manhood they were inseparable companions and partook of\nthe peaceful disposition of their illustrious father.\n\n[Illustration: TWIN ROCKS, ON THE RUSSIAN RIVER--NEAR DAH-NOL-YO.]\n\nOne day, after vainly endeavoring to catch enough fish for dinner,\na very beautiful Indian woman suddenly appeared before them. When\nshe merely looked into the water, fish and turtles came out upon the\nsand and lay at her feet. She pointed to the east and west, and all\nkinds of birds and beasts were at once before her. Ca-ba-ba, the\nelder son, who was to be Chief of the tribe when the Tadi went to\nthe \u201cHappy Hunting Ground,\u201d conceived the idea of making this young\nwoman his wife, feeling assured that at least a good living was in\nstore for him through this arrangement. Divining his thoughts (which\ndid not meet with her approval, as it is supposed she was already\nenamored of Bu-tah-so,) she declared, in consequence of his selfish\nmotives, he should never be the Chief of his tribe, which so enraged\nCa-ba-ba that he threw a fishing spear at her. This missed its fair\nmark and was buried in the bosom of Bu-tah-so. All was immediately in\ndarkness--thunder rolled, lightning flashed and the whole earth was\nconvulsed. From out the storm the woman\u2019s voice was heard pronouncing\nmaledictions on the head of Ca-ba-ba and commanding him to hide\nhimself in Dah-nol-yo, and do penance for all time. While he suffered\nin darkness, she said the face of Bu-tah-so should stand upon his\nsepulchre as a warning to all evil doers. The disappearance of the\nChief\u2019s sons and the face of one of them, engraved in stone, upon the\nmountain overlooking their home, so frightened the tribe that they fled\nto the north, and no tribe has since had the temerity to live in sight\nof the face on Dah-nol-yo.\n\n[Illustration: CAMP SCENE ON RUSSIAN RIVER ON LINE SAN FRANCISCO AND\nNORTH PACIFIC RY.]\n\nHere the legend ends, and we take up the threads and weave a little net\nof well authenticated facts. When the San Francisco and North Pacific\nRailway wound through the picturesque canyon of Che-hool-be-da-dah\n(Russian River) a tunnel pierced the base of Dah-nol-yo, thus opening\nthe door of Ca-ba-ba\u2019s prison and liberating him. In fear of detection,\nand a return to his solitary quarters, he cautiously crept to his\nchildhood\u2019s home only to find desolation. Turning his eyes to the\nsummit of Dah-nol-yo he was transfixed with terror at beholding the\nface of Bu-tah-so looking grimly down upon him. Held by an invisible\npower he gazes on, unable to turn his eyes even to the bear, deer,\nquail and squirrel, that venture so near, peering in wonder at the lone\nman who is to suffer on through all eternity as he keeps his silent\nvigil of Dah-nol-yo.\n\n[Illustration: POMO HUT.]\n\n[Illustration: RUSSIAN RIVER, GUERNEVILLE IN THE DISTANCE.]\n\n[Illustration: BOATING ON RUSSIAN RIVER.]\n\n[Illustration: BOHEMIAN GROVE--NEAR GUERNEVILLE. These trees range from\n200 to 300 feet in height.]\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe way to reach the Russian River and its scenic surroundings is by\nthe SAN FRANCISCO AND NORTH PACIFIC RAILWAY, the Picturesque Route of\nCalifornia.\n\nContinuous riding over this road does not become monotonous, owing to\nthe variety and constant change of scenery, traversing, as it does,\nMarin, Sonoma, Russian River, Sanel and Ukiah Valleys.\n\nThe hand of man, in dotting the country with orchards, vineyards, grain\nfields, homes, towns and villages, has most beautifully blended the\ndomestic with nature\u2019s wildness.\n\nFrom San Francisco to Ukiah, the terminus of the road, is only 113\nmiles.\n\nThe Counties tributary, Marin, Sonoma, Mendocino and Lake, are known\nas the most fertile on the Pacific Coast. The winds from the Pacific\nOcean, tempered by the bordering coast range and redwood forests,\nproduce a mild and salubrious climate so enjoyable to the healthy and\nrefreshing to the weak.\n\nThe Hotels and Resorts, and the numerous and various mineral springs,\nafford every opportunity for health and recreation.\n\nThis section is specially desirable to the home-seeker, owing to the\nvariety and profusion of products which can be raised, and without\nirrigation; for in this section, renowned for its richness and\nfertility and wonderful soil products, =there is not one acre under\nirrigation=.\n\n_Ticket Office, 650 Market Street, Chronicle Building._\n\n_General Office, Mutual Life Building, San Francisco._\n\nA. W. FOSTER, Pres. and Gen\u2019l Manager.\n\nH. C. WHITING, General Superintendent.\n\nR. X. RYAN, Gen\u2019l Pass\u2019r and Frt. Agt.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n[Illustration]\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTranscriber\u2019s Notes:\n\nThe author is Helen McCowen Carpenter (1839-1917).\n\nThis pamphlet is not dated, but a review of it appeared in _The San\nFrancisco Call_, Volume 81, Number 163, May 12, 1897, p. 7.\n\nPunctuation has been made consistent.\n\nThe paragraphs beginning \u201cOne day, after ...\u201d and \u201cHere the legend\nends, ...\u201d have been transposed.","title":"The Legend of Dah-nol-yo, Squaw Rock","tradition":"myth-cosmogony","translated_text":null,"word_count":1103}