This children's book was published in 1885.
Extends through the revolutionary period. A companion volume, "Children's stories of American progress", New York, 1886, covers the period from the Revolution to the close of the Civil War.
There are 25 chapters:
1. Ancient America
2. The Mound-Builders
3. The Red Men
4. The Northmen
5. Columbus and the Discovery of America
6. The Cabots
7. Amkiicus Vespucius
8. Ponce de Leon
9. Vasco Nunez de Balboa, the Discoverer of the
Pacific Ocean
10. Cabeca de Vaca
11. Hernando Cortez and the Conquest of Mexico
12. Pizarro and the Conquest of Peru
13. Ferdinand de Soto, the Discoverer of the Mississippi
14. Verrazano
15. Jacques Cartier
16. The Huguenots
17. Sir Walter Raleigh
18. The Story of Pocahontas, the Indian Princess
19. The Settlement of Maine, and Discovery of Lake
Champlain
20. Henry Hudson and the Knickerbockers
21. The Pilgrims and the Settlement of New England
22. La Salle
23. The Story of Acadia
24. The Story of Pontiac
25. The Revolution
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