Table of Contents.
Publisher’s Preface
Author’s Preface
Maps
I. Our Country Long Ago
II. The Eastern Indians
III. The Mounds
IV. Where the Northmen Went
V. The Northmen in America
VI. Queer Ideas
VII. Prince Henry the Navigator
VIII. Youth of Columbus
IX. Columbus and the Queen
X. “Land! Land!”
XI. Columbus and the Indians
XII. Home Again
XIII. Columbus Ill-treated
XIV. Death of Columbus
XV. How America Got its Name
XVI. The Fountain of Youth
XVII. “The Father of Waters”
XVIII. The French in Canada
XIX. French and Spanish Quarrels
XX. The Sky City
XXI. Around the World
XXII. Nothing but Smoke
XXIII. Smith’s Adventures
XXIV. The Jamestown Men
XXV. Smith Wounded
XXVI. The Visit of Pocahontas to England
XXVII. Hudson and the Indians
XXVIII. The Mayflower
XXIX. Plymouth Rock
XXX. The First American Thanksgiving
XXXI. The Snake Skin and the Bullets
XXXII. The Beginning of Boston
XXXIII. Stories of Two Ministers
XXXIV. Williams and the Indians
XXXV. The Quakers
XXXVI. The King-Killers
XXXVII. King Philip’s War
XXXVIII. The Beginning of New York
XXXIX. Penn and the Indians
XL. The Catholics in Maryland
XLI. The Old Dominion
XLII. Bacon’s Rebellion
XLIII. A Journey Inland
XLIV. The Carolina Pirates
XLV. Charter Oak
XLVI. Salem Witches
XLVII. Down the Mississippi
XLVIII. La Salle’s Adventures
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XLIX. Indians on the Warpath
L. Two Wars with the French
LI. Washington’s Boyhood
LII. Washington’s Journey
LIII. Washington’s First Battle
LIV. Stories of Franklin (pdf format)
LV. Braddock’s Defeat
LVI. Wolfe at Quebec
LVII. How England Treated Her Colonies
LVIII. The Stamp Tax
LIX. The Anger of the Colonies
LX. The Boston Tea Party
LXI. The Minutemen
LXII. The Battle of Lexington
LXIII. Bunker Hill
LXIV. The Boston Boys
LXV. The British Leave Boston
LXVI. Declaration of Independence
LXVII. A Lady’s Way of Helping
LXVIII. Christmas Eve
LXIX. The Fight at Bennington
LXX. Burgoyne’s Surrender
LXXI. The Winter at Valley Forge
LXXII. The Quaker Woman
LXXIII. Putnam’s Adventures
LXXIV. Indian Cruelty
LXXV. Boone in Kentucky
LXXVI. Famous Sea Fights
LXXVII. The “Swamp Fox”
LXXVIII. The Poor Soldiers
LXXIX. The Spy
LXXX. A Traitor’s Death
LXXXI. Two Unselfish Women
LXXXII. The Surrender of Cornwallis
LXXXIII. The British Flag Hauled Down
LXXXIV. Washington’s Farewell
Timeline of New World Colonization
Recommended Reading
Bibliography
Index
List of Maps
The Thirteen Colonies before the Revolution
Part of the Northern States, and the Country around Boston
Voyages of the Northmen
Portuguese Voyages of Discovery and the Race for India
Spanish Voyages of Discovery
English and French Voyages of Discovery
North America before the French and Indian War
Results of the War for Independence
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