History of the Americas

The byways of history often have a fascination denied to the highroads.

Father Knickerbocker himself seems to come to life and tells of the people whom he knew and the incidents of which he was a part, with all the interest that comes of actual-personal participation.

Mary Smith Lockwood is one of the original three who organized the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Miss Mackall in the 'Early Days of Washington' has written and compiled one of the first histories of Washington and of the District of Columbia which shows mark of authority and careful preparation.

The recounting of events which have transpired in our own neighborhood is the most interesting of all history.

It is the design of this book to preserve for the people of Franklin County an imperishable record of its early history - now existing only in scattering and detached papers and records, which are every year wasting away.

Mary Clemmer Ames' book tells of the "e;inner life,"e; wonders, marvels, mysteries, secret doings etc.

Columbus is the state capital and the most populous city of the U.

Miss Killikelly's book is more than a history of Pittsburgh, and all but serves as a history of Allegheny County, of which Pittsburgh has long been the metropolis, and which since the creation of the Greater Pittsburgh - brought about since this book was published - stands more than ever as the expression of the civic activities of its adjacent territory.

'The History of the Revolution in Texas' can be pronounced a clear and rapid narrative of the different events which have attended that piratical outbreak.

Mr.

Sam Bass was a 19th-century American Old West train robber and outlaw.

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The selection of Mr.

Lundy's pamphlet on "e;The War in Texas"e; is not only the best account, up to that time, of the Texas conspiracy, but closes with the remarkable prediction of the Southern Confederacy, which established itself twenty-five years later: "e;Our countrymen, in fighting for the union of Texas with the United States, will be fighting for that which at no distant period will inevitably dissolve the Union.

This is a valuable contribution to general history, and especially to the history of the United States.

MANY CAUSES LED up to the Spanish-American war.

A series of monographs on the History of America as portrayed in the evolution of its Highways of War, Commerce, and Social Expansion.

A series of monographs on the History of America as portrayed in the evolution of its Highways of War, Commerce, and Social Expansion.

A series of monographs on the History of America as portrayed in the evolution of its Highways of War, Commerce, and Social Expansion.

A series of monographs on the History of America as portrayed in the evolution of its Highways of War, Commerce, and Social Expansion.

A series of monographs on the History of America as portrayed in the evolution of its Highways of War, Commerce, and Social Expansion.

A series of monographs on the History of America as portrayed in the evolution of its Highways of War, Commerce, and Social Expansion.

A series of monographs on the History of America as portrayed in the evolution of its Highways of War, Commerce, and Social Expansion.

A series of monographs on the History of America as portrayed in the evolution of its Highways of War, Commerce, and Social Expansion.

A series of monographs on the History of America as portrayed in the evolution of its Highways of War, Commerce, and Social Expansion.

A series of monographs on the History of America as portrayed in the evolution of its Highways of War, Commerce, and Social Expansion.

A series of monographs on the History of America as portrayed in the evolution of its Highways of War, Commerce, and Social Expansion.

A series of monographs on the History of America as portrayed in the evolution of its Highways of War, Commerce, and Social Expansion.

Place names in the United States are often taken from the European nation that first colonized the land.

Oakland county is peculiarly fortunate in the variety of her charms and riches, to which truth these pages bear witness.

A history of the early settlement of Allegheny County, of the midnight raids by the Indians, of the bloody battles, of the hardships and privations endured by the pioneers, and, later on, by the wonderful development and growth of the same during the past century cannot but be interesting to every citizen of the county.

This finely arranged book of almost 250 pages upon the history of Ohio's metropolis Cleveland fills the place for which it was intended with no small degree of success, and has the advantage which no former history of the city possesses, that of conciseness combined with newness.

Suffolk County was an original county of the Province of New York, one of twelve created in 1683.

When all its phases are taken in the aggregate, Broadway holds a position that is unique and pre-eminent among the great avenues of the world.

Stephen Jenkins has chosen for the subject of this volume the oldest and most northerly of the post roads: that over which the first postrider went; which echoed to the war-whoop of the savage, saw the passage of soldiers during the French Wars; beheld the flocking of the minutemen upon the Lexington Alarm, later became the pathway of countless thousands of emigrants on their way to the rich valleys of the Mohawk and the Genesee, or to the fertile prairies of the Middle West.

The romantic history of the northern section of Greater New York from the days of Jonas Bronk, after whom the Bronx was named, through the centuries crowded with events that have issued into the present.

The famous happenings of an eventful period in Boston's early history, from the dawn of the Revolution until the town became a city, are here handled with a fresh and vigorous touch.

Lowell was founded by the 'Merrimac Manufacturing Company' in 1822, and named after Francis C.

The author knows his city and loves it, and has a fund of anecdote as well as history up his capacious sleeve.

The first of the chapters in the book is an antiquarian chapter; but the "e;Three Literary Epochs"e; of the second chapter - the epoch of the North American Review, that of the Dial, and that of the Atlantic Monthly - were epochs all in some manner familiar to Higginson, and a part of which he was; the last three chapters he dedicated to the famous writers Holmes, Longfellow and Lowell.

Maybe there has never been a more comprehensive work on the history of Chicago than the five volumes written by Josiah S.

Maybe there has never been a more comprehensive work on the history of Chicago than the five volumes written by Josiah S.

In this book the author, Weston A.

The career of a city contains as much good material, out of which an entertaining history may be constructed, as does the life of an individual, or the development of a nation; but, for some reason, it has come to pass in America that the preparation of city, or "e;local"e;, history has usually fallen into the hands of schemers who exploit the "e;prominent"e; citizen for his biography, and throw in something of a narrative, merely as an apology for the book's existence.

What the author of this book has to tell is the true story of a great City that was founded "e;by order of the King,"e; in the old days when the Western World was new.

Few states of the United States have a more varied, a more interesting or a more instructive history than California, and few have done so little to preserve their history.

While the history of most American cities is rather commonplace, there are a few which furnish a story of facts more fascinating than any romance.

Eliza Southgate Bowne was the writer of a series of charming letters which are now published with the subtitle of "e;A Girl's Life Eighty Years Ago"e;.

These are the journals of Nicholas Cresswell, who sailed to the American colonies after becoming acquainted with a native of Edale who was now resident in Alexandria, Virginia.