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Children's Stories in American History

Children's Stories in American History

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CHILDREN'S STORIES
IN
AMERICAN HISTORY

  A Mammoth Hunt
A Mammoth Hunt

Children's Stories
in
American History

by
Henrietta Christian Wright

Illustrated by J. Steeple Davis

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1885



Copyright, 1885, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

TROW'S
PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY,
NEW YORK.

CONTENTS.

  Page
CHAPTER I.
Ancient America,

1
CHAPTER II.
The Mound-Builders,

5
CHAPTER III.
The Red Men,

14
CHAPTER IV.
The Northmen,

27
CHAPTER V.
Columbus and the Discovery of America,

38
CHAPTER VI.
The Cabots,

61
CHAPTER VII.
Americus Vespucius,

65
CHAPTER VIII.
Ponce de Leon,

71
CHAPTER IX.
Vasco Nunez de Balboa, the Discoverer of the Pacific Ocean,

76
CHAPTER X.
Cabeca de Vaca,

85
CHAPTER XI.
Hernando Cortez and the Conquest of Mexico,

103
CHAPTER XII.
Pizarro and the Conquest of Peru,

114
CHAPTER XIII.
Ferdinand de Soto, the Discoverer of the Mississippi,

172
CHAPTER XIV.
Verrazano,

199
CHAPTER XV.
Jacques Cartier,

210
CHAPTER XVI.
The Huguenots,

228
CHAPTER XVII.
Sir Walter Raleigh,

254
CHAPTER XVIII.
The Story of Pocahontas, the Indian Princess,

259
CHAPTER XIX.
The Settlement of Maine, and Discovery of Lake Champlain,

269
CHAPTER XX.
Henry Hudson and the Knickerbockers,

292
CHAPTER XXI.
The Pilgrims and the Settlement of New England,

300
CHAPTER XXII.
La Salle,

316
CHAPTER XXIII.
The Story of Acadia,

331
CHAPTER XXIV.
The Story of Pontiac,

337
CHAPTER XXV.
The Revolution,

348

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

A Mammoth Hunt, Frontispiece.
  FACING PAGE
The Teaching of an Indian Child, 14

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