Strange Stories of Colonial Days

About this eBook

Author

Various

Credits

Produced by Juliet Sutherland, S.D., and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Fiction

Category

Text

eBook-No.

34536

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34536

Release Date

December 1, 2010

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.STRANGE STORIES OF COLONIAL DAYS
2. 2.CONTENTS
3. 3.ILLUSTRATIONS
4. 4.INTRODUCTION — STRANGE STORIES OF COLONIAL DAYS
5. 5.I THE CROWNING OF POWHATAN Adventures in Early Indian History
6. 6.II CORNELIS LABDEN’S LEAP A Legend of 1645 Retold
7. 7.III TOMMY TEN-CANOES A Tale of King Philip’s Scout
8. 8.IV JONATHAN’S ESCAPE A Young Hero of Hadley who Fought at Turner’s Falls in 1676
9. 9.V THE CROWN OF AN AMERICAN QUEEN In the Days of Bacon’s Rebellion in Virginia — Footnotes:
10. 10.VI HOW A BLACKSMITH’S BOY BECAME A KNIGHT The Treasure-hunt of William Phipps in the late Seventeenth Century
11. 11.VII THE GIRL CAPTAIN OF CASTLE DANGEROUS How Three Children Fought the Iroquois in 1692
12. 12.VIII HOW MARC WAS MADE CAPTAIN A Rescue from the “Lords of the Woods” in 1695
13. 13.IX CAPTAIN KIDD An Overrated Pirate
14. 14.X HOWARD THE BUCCANEER A Captain of Many Ships
15. 15.XI TEW, OF RHODE ISLAND A Fighter from the Seas
16. 16.XII THE VROUW VAN TWINKLE’S KRULLERS A Story of Old New York
17. 17.XIII THE SIGN OF THE SERPENT A Story of Louisiana in the Early Eighteenth Century — Footnotes:
18. 18.XIV A DRUMMER OF WARBURTON’S How a Boy Held Fort George at Cape Canso, in 1757
19. 19.XV ROGERS’ RANGERS The Famous New Hampshire Scouts of the Old French War
20. 20.XVI THE PLOT OF PONTIAC How Detroit was Saved in 1763
21. 21.STRANGE STORIES FROM HISTORY
22. 22.Transcriber’s Note:

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