CONTENTS

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I A Historic Moment[1]
II Birth and Early Home[7]
III Boyhood and Student Days[22]
IV Fighting the Apaches and the Sioux[44]
V A Military Instructor[56]
VI In the Spanish War[65]
VII In the Philippines[86]
VIII Subjecting the Moros[96]
IX In Pursuit of Villa[118]
X Called to Command the American Expeditionary Forces in France [131]
XI Why America Went to War with Germany[149]
XII In England and France[161]
XIII At the Tomb of Napoleon[171]
XIV A Wreath for the Tomb of Lafayette[181]
XV Fourth of July in France and Bastile Day in America[193]
XVI Incidents and Characteristics[203]
XVII What Others Think of Him[225]
XVIII As a Writer and Speaker[238]
XIX The Man Behind the General[242]
XX His Military Record[257]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

FACING PAGE
General Pershing[Frontispiece]
The Home of the Pershings, Laclede, Missouri[10]
General Pershing As a Boy[22]
The Church the Pershings Attended at Laclede[28]
The Prairie Mound School[28]
The Highland Military Academy[34]
United States Military Academy, West Point, N. Y.[34]
Col. Huse, "Splendid Old Caleb"[40]
Kirksville, Mo., State Normal School[40]
The Lieutenant in the Family[46]
General Foch and General Pershing[254]

THE STORY OF GENERAL PERSHING