Historic Adventures, Tales from American History
by Rupert Sargent Holland
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About this eBook
- Author
- Holland, Rupert Sargent, 1878-1952
- Title
- Historic Adventures: Tales from American History
- Credits
- Produced by Greg Bergquist, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- E151: History: America: United States
- Subject
- United States -- History -- Anecdotes
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 42398
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42398
- Release Date
- March 24, 2013
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Historic Adventures Tales from American History
- 2.Contents
- 3.Illustrations
- 4.I THE LOST CHILDREN
- 5.II THE GREAT JOURNEY OF LEWIS AND CLARK
- 6.III THE CONSPIRACY OF AARON BURR
- 7.IV HOW THE YOUNG REPUBLIC FOUGHT THE BARBARY PIRATES — I — II
- 8.V THE FATE OF LOVEJOY'S PRINTING-PRESS
- 9.VI HOW MARCUS WHITMAN SAVED OREGON
- 10.VII HOW THE MORMONS CAME TO SETTLE UTAH
- 11.VIII THE GOLDEN DAYS OF 'FORTY-NINE
- 12.IX HOW THE UNITED STATES MADE FRIENDS WITH JAPAN
- 13.X THE PIG THAT ALMOST CAUSED A WAR
- 14.XI JOHN BROWN AT HARPER'S FERRY
- 15.XII AN ARCTIC EXPLORER
- 16.XIII THE STORY OF ALASKA
- 17.XIV HOW THE "MERRIMAC" WAS SUNK IN SANTIAGO HARBOR
- 18.Transcriber's Notes:
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