CONTENTS - Stories of Later American History - Wilbur F. Gordy - 5

PREFACE STORIES OF LATER AMERICAN HISTORY

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

[Patrick Henry]
[Samuel Adams]
[The War Begins near Boston]
[George Washington in the Revolution]
[Nathanael Greene and Other Heroes in the South]
[John Paul Jones]
[Daniel Boone]
[James Robertson]
[John Sevier]
[George Rogers Clark]
[The New Republic]
[Increasing the Size of the New Republic]
[Internal Improvements]
[The Republic Grows Larger]
[Three Great Statesmen]
[The Civil War]
[Four Great Industries]
[Index]

ILLUSTRATIONS

[Pioneers on the Overland Route, Westward]
[George III]
[Patrick Henry]
[Patrick Henry Delivering His Speech in the Virginia House of Burgesses]
[William Pitt]
[St. John’s Church, Richmond]
[Samuel Adams]
[Patriots in New York Destroying Stamps Intended for Use in Connecticut]
[Faneuil Hall, Boston]
[Old South Church, Boston]
[The “Boston Tea Party”]
[Carpenters’ Hall, Philadelphia]
[John Hancock]
[John Hancock’s Home, Boston]
[A Minuteman]
[Old North Church]
[Paul Revere’s Ride]
[Monument on Lexington Common Marking the Line of the Minutemen]
[Concord Bridge]
[President Langdon, the President of Harvard College, Praying for the Bunker Hill Entrenching Party on Cambridge Common Just Before Their Departure]
[Prescott at Bunker Hill]
[Bunker Hill Monument]
[George Washington]
[Washington, Henry, and Pendleton on the Way to Congress at Philadelphia]
[The Washington Elm at Cambridge, under which Washington took Command of the Army]
[Sir William Howe]
[Thomas Jefferson Looking Over the Rough Draught of the Declaration of Independence]
[The Retreat from Long Island]
[Nathan Hale]
[British and Hessian Soldiers]
[Powder-Horn, Bullet-Flask, and Buckshot-Pouch Used in the Revolution]
[General Burgoyne Surrendering to General Gates]
[Marquis de Lafayette]
[Lafayette Offering His Services to Franklin]
[Winter at Valley Forge]
[Nathanael Greene]
[The Meeting of Greene and Gates upon Greene’s Assuming Command]
[Daniel Morgan]
[Francis Marion]
[Marion Surprising a British Wagon-Train]
[John Paul Jones]
[Battle Between the Ranger and the Drake]
[The Fight Between the Bon Homme Richard and the Serapis]
[Daniel Boone]
[Boone’s Escape from the Indians]
[Boonesborough]
[Boone Throwing Tobacco into the Eyes of the Indians Who Had Come to Capture Him]
[James Robertson]
[Living-Room of the Early Settler]
[Grinding Indian Corn]
[A Kentucky Pioneer’s Cabin]
[John Sevier]
[A Barbecue of 1780]
[Battle of King’s Mountain]
[George Rogers Clark]
[Clark on the Way to Kaskaskia]
[Clark’s Surprise at Kaskaskia]
[Wampum Peace Belt]
[Clark’s Advance on Vincennes]
[George Washington]
[Washington’s Home, Mount Vernon]
[Tribute Rendered to Washington at Trenton]
[Washington Taking the Oath of Office as First President, at Federal Hall, New York City]
[Washington’s Inaugural Chair]
[Eli Whitney]
[Whitney’s Cotton-Gin]
[A Colonial Planter]
[A Slave Settlement]
[Thomas Jefferson]
[“Monticello,” the Home of Jefferson]
[A Rice-Field in Louisiana]
[A Flatboat on the Ohio River]
[House in New Orleans Where Louis Philippe Stopped in 1798]
[A Public Building in New Orleans Built in 1794]
[Meriwether Lewis]
[William Clark]
[Buffalo Hunted by Indians]
[The Lewis and Clark Expedition Working Its Way Westward]
[Andrew Jackson]
[“The Hermitage,” the Home of Andrew Jackson]
[Fighting the Seminole Indians, under Jackson]
[Robert Fulton]
[Fulton’s First Experiment with Paddle-Wheels]
[The “Clermont” in Duplicate at the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, 1909]
[The Opening of the Erie Canal in 1825]
[The Ceremony Called “The Marriage of the Waters”]
[Erie Canal on the Right and Aqueduct over the Mohawk River, New York]
[“Tom Thumb,” Peter Cooper’s Locomotive Working Model, First Used near Baltimore in 1830]
[Railroad Poster of 1843]
[Comparison of “DeWitt Clinton” Locomotive and Train, the First Train Operated in New York, with a Modern Locomotive of the New York Central R.R.]
[S.F.B. Morse]
[The First Telegraph Instrument]
[Modern Telegraph Office]
[The Operation of the Modern Railroad is Dependent upon the Telegraph]
[Sam Houston]
[Flag of the Republic of Texas]
[David Crockett]
[The Fight at the Alamo]
[John C. Frémont]
[Frémont’s Expedition Crossing the Rocky Mountains]
[Kit Carson]
[Sutter’s Mill]
[Placer-Mining in the Days of the California Gold Rush]
[John C. Calhoun]
[Calhoun’s Office and Library]
[Henry Clay]
[The Birthplace of Henry Clay, near Richmond]
[The Schoolhouse in “the Slashes”]
[Daniel Webster]
[The Home of Daniel Webster, Marshfield, Mass.]
[Henry Clay Addressing the United States Senate in 1850]
[Abraham Lincoln]
[Lincoln’s Birthplace]
[Lincoln Studying by Firelight]
[Lincoln Splitting Rails]
[Lincoln as a Boatman]
[Lincoln Visiting Wounded Soldiers]
[Robert E. Lee]
[Lee’s Home at Arlington, Virginia]
[Jefferson Davis]
[Thomas J. Jackson]
[A Confederate Flag]
[J.E.B. Stuart]
[Confederate Soldiers]
[Union Soldiers]
[Ulysses S. Grant]
[Grant’s Birthplace, Point Pleasant, Ohio]
[General and Mrs. Grant with Their Son at City Point, Virginia]
[William Tecumseh Sherman]
[Sherman’s March to the Sea]
[Philip H. Sheridan]
[Sheridan Rallying His Troops]
[The McLean House Where Lee Surrendered]
[General Lee on His Horse, Traveller]
[Cotton-Field in Blossom]
[A Wheat-Field]
[Grain-Elevators at Buffalo]
[Cattle on the Western Plains]
[Iron Smelters]
[Iron Ore Ready for Shipment]

MAPS

[Boston and Vicinity]
[The War in the Middle States]
[The War in the South]
[Early Settlements in Kentucky and Tennessee]
[George Rogers Clark in the Northwest]
[The United States in 1803, after the Louisiana Purchase (Colored)]
[Jackson’s Campaign]
[Scene of Houston’s Campaign]
[Frémont’s Western Explorations]
[Map of the United States Showing First and Second Secession Areas (Colored)]
[Route of Sherman’s March to the Sea]
[The Country Around Washington and Richmond]