American Adventures

About this eBook

Author

Street, Julian, 1879-1947

Title

American Adventures: A Second Trip 'Abroad at home'

Credits

Produced by Susan Skinner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

F206: United States local history: The South. South Atlantic States

Subject

Southern States -- Social life and customs

Category

Text

eBook-No.

18304

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18304

Release Date

May 3, 2006

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.AMERICAN ADVENTURES
2. 2.FOREWORD
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
5. 5.THE BORDERLAND — AMERICAN ADVENTURES
6. 6.CHAPTER I ON JOURNEYS THROUGH THE STATES
7. 7.CHAPTER II A BALTIMORE EVENING
8. 8.CHAPTER III WHERE THE CLIMATES MEET
9. 9.CHAPTER IV TRIUMPHANT DEFEAT
10. 10.CHAPTER V TERRAPIN AND THINGS
11. 11.CHAPTER VI DOUGHOREGAN MANOR AND THE CARROLLS
12. 12.CHAPTER VII A RARE OLD TOWN
13. 13.CHAPTER VIII WE MEET THE HAMPTON GHOST
14. 14.CHAPTER IX ARE WE STANDARDIZED?
15. 15.CHAPTER X HARPER'S FERRY AND JOHN BROWN
16. 16.CHAPTER XI THE VIRGINIAS AND THE WASHINGTONS
17. 17.CHAPTER XII I RIDE A HORSE
18. 18.CHAPTER XIII INTO THE OLD DOMINION
19. 19.CHAPTER XIV CHARLOTTESVILLE AND MONTICELLO
20. 20.CHAPTER XV THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
21. 21.CHAPTER XVI FOX-HUNTING IN VIRGINIA
22. 22.CHAPTER XVII "A CERTAIN PARTY"
23. 23.CHAPTER XVIII THE LEGACY OF HATE
24. 24.CHAPTER XIX "YOU-ALL" AND OTHER SECTIONAL MISUNDERSTANDINGS
25. 25.CHAPTER XX IDIOMS AND ARISTOCRACY
26. 26.CHAPTER XXI THE CONFEDERATE CAPITAL
27. 27.CHAPTER XXII RANDOM RICHMOND NOTES
28. 28.CHAPTER XXIII JEDGE CRUTCHFIELD'S CO'T
29. 29.CHAPTER XXIV NORFOLK AND ITS NEIGHBORHOOD
30. 30.CHAPTER XXV COLONEL TAYLOR AND GENERAL LEE
31. 31.THE HEART OF THE SOUTH
32. 32.CHAPTER XXVI RALEIGH AND JOSEPHUS DANIELS
33. 33.CHAPTER XXVII ITEMS FROM "THE OLD NORTH STATE"
34. 34.CHAPTER XXVIII UNDER ST. MICHAEL'S CHIMES
35. 35.CHAPTER XXIX HISTORY AND ARISTOCRACY
36. 36.CHAPTER XXX POLITICS, A NEWSPAPER AND ST. CECILIA
37. 37.CHAPTER XXXI "GULLA" AND THE BACK COUNTRY
38. 38.CHAPTER XXXII OUT OF THE PAST
39. 39.CHAPTER XXXIII ALIVE ATLANTA
40. 40.CHAPTER XXXIV GEORGIA JOURNALISM
41. 41.CHAPTER XXXV SOME ATLANTA INSTITUTIONS
42. 42.CHAPTER XXXVI A BIT OF RURAL GEORGIA
43. 43.CHAPTER XXXVII A YOUNG METROPOLIS
44. 44.CHAPTER XXXVIII BUSY BIRMINGHAM
45. 45.CHAPTER XXXIX AN ALLEGORY OF ACHIEVEMENT
46. 46.CHAPTER XL THE ROAD TO ARCADY
47. 47.CHAPTER XLI A MISSISSIPPI TOWN
48. 48.CHAPTER XLII OLD TALES AND A NEW GAME
49. 49.CHAPTER XLIII OUT OF THE LONG AGO
50. 50.CHAPTER XLIV THE GIRL HE LEFT BEHIND HIM
51. 51.CHAPTER XLV VICKSBURG OLD AND NEW
52. 52.CHAPTER XLVI SHREDS AND PATCHES
53. 53.CHAPTER XLVII THE BAFFLING MISSISSIPPI
54. 54.CHAPTER XLVIII OLD RIVER DAYS
55. 55.CHAPTER XLIX WHAT MEMPHIS HAS ENDURED
56. 56.CHAPTER L MODERN MEMPHIS
57. 57.FARTHEST SOUTH
58. 58.CHAPTER LI BEAUTIFUL SAVANNAH
59. 59.CHAPTER LII MISS "JAX" AND SOME FLORIDA GOSSIP
60. 60.CHAPTER LIII PASSIONATE PALM BEACH
61. 61.CHAPTER LIV ASSORTED AND RESORTED FLORIDA
62. 62.CHAPTER LV A DAY IN MONTGOMERY
63. 63.CHAPTER LVI THE CITY OF THE CREOLE
64. 64.CHAPTER LVII HISTORY, THE CREOLE, AND HIS DUELS
65. 65.CHAPTER LVIII FROM ANTIQUES TO PIRATES
66. 66.CHAPTER LIX ANTOINE'S AND MARDI GRAS
67. 67.CHAPTER LX FINALE
68. 68.FOOTNOTES — Transcriber's Notes

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