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The Story of Our Country

The Story of Our Country

by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut

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Editor
Hurlbut, Jesse Lyman, 1843-1930
Title
The Story of Our Country Every Child Can Read
Credits
E-text prepared by Emmy, Tor Martin Kristiansen, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( www.archive.org)
Language
English
LoC Class
E151: History: America: United States
Subject
United States -- History -- Juvenile literature
Category
Text
eBook-No.
32402
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32402
Release Date
May 16, 2010
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.E-text prepared by Emmy, Tor Martin Kristiansen, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( http://www.pgdp.net ) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( http://www.archive.org ) — THE STORY OF OUR COUNTRY
  2. 2.REV. JESSE LYMAN HURLBUT, D.D.
  3. 3.TABLE OF CONTENTS
  4. 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  5. 5.A TALK WITH THE YOUNG READER ABOUT THE HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY
  6. 6.THE STORY OF OUR COUNTRY
  7. 7.CHAPTER I — COLUMBUS, THE GREAT SAILOR
  8. 8.CHAPTER II — THREE GREAT DISCOVERERS
  9. 9.CHAPTER III — THREE EARLY HEROES
  10. 10.CHAPTER IV — THE DUTCH AND THE QUAKERS COME TO AMERICA
  11. 11.CHAPTER V — THE CAVALIER COLONIES OF THE SOUTH
  12. 12.CHAPTER VI — THE RED MEN, HOW THEY LIVED AND WERE TREATED
  13. 13.CHAPTER VII — ROYAL GOVERNORS AND LOYAL CAPTAINS
  14. 14.CHAPTER VIII — OLD TIMES IN THE COLONIES
  15. 15.CHAPTER IX — A HERO OF THE COLONIES
  16. 16.CHAPTER X — THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR AND THE STORY OF THE ACADIANS
  17. 17.CHAPTER XI — THE CAUSES OF THE REVOLUTION
  18. 18.CHAPTER XII — FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM — FOOTNOTE:
  19. 19.CHAPTER XIII — PAUL JONES, THE NAVAL HERO OF THE REVOLUTION
  20. 20.CHAPTER XIV — MARION THE SWAMP FOX AND GENERAL GREENE
  21. 21.CHAPTER XV — THE VOYAGE OF OUR SHIP OF STATE
  22. 22.CHAPTER XVI — THE END OF A NOBLE LIFE
  23. 23.CHAPTER XVII — THE STEAMBOAT AND THE COTTON GIN
  24. 24.CHAPTER XVIII — THE ENGLISH AND AMERICANS FIGHT AGAIN
  25. 25.CHAPTER XIX — HOW THE VICTIMS OF THE ALAMO WERE REVENGED
  26. 26.CHAPTER XX — HOW SLAVERY LED TO WAR
  27. 27.CHAPTER XXI — HOW LINCOLN BECAME PRESIDENT
  28. 28.CHAPTER XXII — THE GREAT CIVIL WAR
  29. 29.CHAPTER XXIII — WAR ON SEA AND LAND
  30. 30.CHAPTER XXIV — THE WASTE OF WAR AND THE WEALTH OF PEACE
  31. 31.CHAPTER XXV — THE MARVELS OF INVENTION
  32. 32.CHAPTER XXVI — HOW THE CENTURY ENDED FOR THE UNITED STATES
  33. 33.CHAPTER XXVII — HOW A HUNTER BECAME PRESIDENT — Transcriber's Notes:

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