STORIES OF GEORGIA

By Joel Chandler Harris

Copyright, 1896, by American Book Company

CONTENTS

PREFACE.

STORIES OF GEORGIA.

A SEARCH FOR TREASURE.

OGLETHORPE AND HIS GENTLE COLONY

THE EMPRESS OF GEORGIA

THE LIBERTY BOYS.

A GROUP OF CHARACTERS

AUNT NANCY HART.

TWO SOLDIERS OF THE REVOLUTION.

A WAR OF EXTERMINATION.

A NEGRO PATRIOT.

THE YAZOO FRAUD

GEORGE MATTHEWS AND JOHN CLARKE.

AFTER THE REVOLUTION.

THE COTTON GIN.

SOME GEORGIA INVENTIONS.

THE EARLY PROGRESS OF THE STATE.

THE CREEKS AND THE CREEK WAR

TWO FAMOUS INDIAN CHIEFS.

REMOVAL OF THE CHEROKEES.

THE BEGINNING OF PARTIES IN GEORGIA.

A QUEER CASE.

GEORGIA WIT AND HUMOR.

SLAVERY AND SECESSION.

THE FARMER BOY OF GADDISTOWN.

GEORGIA IN THE WAR.

A DARING ADVENTURE.

THE RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD.

"THE NEW SOUTH"

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ILLUSTRATIONS

De Soto

Indian Queen

Oglethorpe

Mary Musgrove

Empress Mary

The Liberty Boys

Tondee's Tavern

Seisure of Ammunition in Savannah

The Head of Robert Sallette

Mcgirth and his Mare