Copyright, 1913, by
George W. Jacobs & Company
Published October, 1913
All rights reserved
Printed in U.S.A.

To
Robert D. Jenks

[Contents]

I.The Lost Children[9]
II.The Great Journey of Lewis and Clark[21]
III.The Conspiracy of Aaron Burr[59]
IV.How the Young Republic Fought the Barbary Pirates[80]
V.The Fate of Lovejoy's Printing-Press[113]
VI.How Marcus Whitman Saved Oregon[135]
VII.How the Mormons Came to Settle Utah[165]
VIII.The Golden Days of 'Forty-Nine[181]
IX.How the United States Made Friends with Japan[203]
X.The Pig that Almost Caused a War[222]
XI.John Brown at Harper's Ferry[229]
XII.An Arctic Explorer[254]
XIII.The Story of Alaska[264]
XIV.How the "Merrimac" was Sunk in Santiago Harbor[275]

[Illustrations]

Shooting tongues of smoke from their great black throats[Frontispiece]
Facing page
Sawquehanna seemed to remember the voice[18]
Decatur caught the Moor's arm[90]
The last six hundred miles were the hardest[152]
Nauvoo had handsome houses and public buildings[166]
Wherever there was a stream explorers began to dig[186]
The teams, exhausted, began to fail[200]
Spanish boats pulled close to them[282]