CONTENTS.
I. The Broad Story.
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I. The Pioneer Nation [17]
II. A Muddled Geography [25]
III. Columbus the Finder [36]
IV. Making Geography [43]
V. The Chapter of Conquest [56]
VI. A Girdle Round the World [71]
VII. Spain in the United States [78]
VIII. Two Continents Mastered [90]
II. Specimen Pioneers.
I. The First American Traveller [101]
II. The Greatest American Traveller [117]
III. The War of the Rock [125]
IV. The Storming of the Sky-City [135]
V. The Soldier Poet [144]
VI. The Pioneer Missionaries [149]
VII. The Church-builders in New Mexico [158]
VIII. Alvarado's Leap [170]
IX. The American Golden Fleece [181]
III. The Greatest Conquest.
I. The Swineherd of Truxillo [203]
II. The Man Who Would Not Give Up [215]
III. Gaining Ground [225]
IV. Peru As It Was [238]
V. The Conquest of Peru [246]
VI. The Golden Ransom [257]
VII. Atahualpa's Treachery and Death [265]
VIII. Founding a Nation.—the Siege of Cuzco [275]
IX. The Work of Traitors [284]