Talk:Yahoya

A letter concerning the story
(Editor: Arthur Sullivant Hoffman; p. 217)

OW consider a story in this very issue—"Yahoya." As the manuscript came to us it stated that one of the Hopi Indians ran 800 miles in 10 days—80 miles a day. It might be true but we knew most of our readers would think it a wild exaggeration. So, with Mr. Gregory's consent, we changed it to twenty days, 40 miles a day—cut it square in two. Yet even so some of you may have written it down as a bad break and wholly impossible. We made similar changes elsewhere in the tale. Mr. Gregory's letter follows:

And here are two notes that accompanied the original manuscript: