CONTENTS

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I.Our Country Long Ago[13]
II.The Barbarous Indians[17]
III.The Mounds[20]
IV.Where the Northmen went[24]
V.The Northmen in America[27]
VI.Queer Ideas[31]
VII.Prince Henry the Navigator[33]
VIII.Youth of Columbus[36]
IX.Columbus and the Queen[39]
X."Land! Land!"[44]
XI.Columbus and the Savages[48]
XII.Home Again[51]
XIII.Columbus illtreated[54]
XIV.Death of Columbus[57]
XV.How America got its Name[60]
XVI.The Fountain of Youth[62]
XVII."The Father of Waters"[66]
XVIII.The French in Canada[70]
XIX.French and Spanish Quarrels[73]
XX.The Sky City[77]
XXI.Around the World[80]
XXII.Nothing but Smoke[83]
XXIII.Smith's Adventures[87]
XXIV.The Jamestown Men[91]
XXV.Smith wounded[94]
XXVI.The Visit of Pocahontas to England[97]
XXVII.Hudson and the Indians[102]
XXVIII.The Mayflower[105]
XXIX.Plymouth Rock[109]
XXX.The First American Thanksgiving[113]
XXXI.The Snake Skin and the Bullets[118]
XXXII.The Beginning of Boston[122]
XXXIII.Stories of Two Ministers[126]
XXXIV.Williams and the Indians[129]
XXXV.The Quakers[134]
XXXVI.The King-Killers[136]
XXXVII.King Philip's War[138]
XXXVIII.The Beginning of New York[142]
XXXIX.Penn and the Indians[147]
XL.The Catholics in Maryland[152]
XLI.The Old Dominion[155]
XLII.Bacon's Rebellion[157]
XLIII.A Journey Inland[160]
XLIV.The Carolina Pirates[162]
XLV.Charter Oak[166]
XLVI.Salem Witches[170]
XLVII.Down the Mississippi[174]
XLVIII.La Salle's Adventures[180]
XLIX.Indians on the Warpath[183]
L.Two Wars with the French[187]
LI.Washington's Boyhood[191]
LII.Washington's Journey[195]
LIII.Washington's First Battle[198]
LIV.Stories of Franklin[199]
LV.Braddock's Defeat[206]
LVI.Wolfe at Quebec[210]
LVII.How England treated her Colonies[214]
LVIII.The Stamp Tax[218]
LIX.The Anger of the Colonies[220]
LX.The Boston Tea Party[224]
LXI.The Minutemen[228]
LXII.The Battle of Lexington[233]
LXIII.Bunker Hill[237]
LXIV.The Boston Boys[242]
LXV.The British leave Boston[245]
LXVI.Declaration of Independence[248]
LXVII.A Lady's Way of Helping[253]
LXVIII.Christmas Eve[258]
LXIX.The Fight at Bennington[262]
LXX.Burgoyne's Surrender[267]
LXXI.The Winter at Valley Forge[271]
LXXII.The Quaker Woman[275]
LXXIII.Putnam's Adventures[279]
LXXIV.Indian Cruelty[283]
LXXV.Boone in Kentucky[288]
LXXVI.Famous Sea Fights[293]
LXXVII.The "Swamp Fox"[297]
LXXVIII.The Poor Soldiers[302]
LXXIX.The Spy[304]
LXXX.A Traitor's Death[309]
LXXXI.Two Unselfish Women[312]
LXXXII.The Surrender of Cornwallis[315]
LXXXIII.The British Flag hauled down[319]
LXXXIV.Washington's Farewell[323]