Tenalquot Prairie, a district of park-like openings about groves of fir and other softwood timber. According to an Indian legend, Coyote told his favored tribes, a poor and oppressed people living in California, to prepare for a great migration to a new land he would seek out for them. Traveling northward, Coyote reached a beautiful prairie, rich in game, well-watered, and pleasantly wooded. Exclaiming “Ten-al-quelth!” (the best yet!) he sent a messenger to guide his people to their new home. The bands which came, the legend says, were ancestors of the Indians who now live in the neighboring region.