The Iron Star — And What It Saw on Its Journey Through the Ages / From Myth to History

by John Preston True

Produced by Rose Koven, Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks

and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.

THE IRON STAR And what It saw on Its Journey through the Ages

From Myth to History

By

JOHN PRESTON TRUE
Author of "Scouting for Washington," "Their Club and Ours," "Shoulder
Arms," etc.

Illustrated by
Lilian Crawford True

PREFACE

This is a wonderful old world of ours, the one we live in. It is wonderful to think how it has grown, day by day, year by year, century by century, and by each step of Time just a little better worth living in. It is like a beautiful fairy story, with the great advantage of being true.

Of course none of us were here when the world began, so we did not see the beginning of it, but some of us have worked the problem backward through the years to find out what the beginning was like; and starting from a good dry spot, if you follow the wanderings of my Iron Star, I believe you will at no time be very far from the truth of the way in which girls and boys and their elders lived in the days now long ago. Will you make the journey with me?