STORIES OF LATER AMERICAN HISTORY

by Wilbur F. Gordy

Overview

CONTENTS


CHAPTER

I. PATRICK HENRY
II. SAMUEL ADAMS
III. THE WAR BEGINS NEAR BOSTON
IV. GEORGE WASHINGTON IN THE REVOLUTION
V. NATHANAEL GREENE AND OTHER HEROES IN THE SOUTH
VI. JOHN PAUL JONES
VII. DANIEL BOONE
VIII. JAMES ROBERTSON
IX. JOHN SEVIER
X. GEORGE ROGERS CLARK
XI. THE NEW REPUBLIC
XII. INCREASING THE SIZE OF THE NEW REPUBLIC
XIII. INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS
XIV. THE REPUBLIC GROWS LARGER
XV. THREE GREAT STATESMEN
XVI. THE CIVIL WAR
XVII. FOUR GREAT INDUSTRIES
INDEX




ILLUSTRATIONS


Pioneers on the Overland Route, Westward
George III
Patrick Henry
Patrick Henry Delivering His Speech in the Virginia House of
Burgesses
William Pitt
St. John's Church, Richmond
Samuel Adams
Patriots in New York Destroying Stamps Intended for Use in
Connecticut
Faneuil Hall, Boston
Old South Church, Boston
The "Boston Tea Party"
Carpenters' Hall, Philadelphia
John Hancock
John Hancock's Home, Boston
A Minuteman
Old North Church
Paul Revere's Ride
Monument on Lexington Common Marking the Line of the Minutemen
Concord Bridge
President Langdon, the President of Harvard College, Praying for the
Bunker Hill Entrenching Party on Cambridge Common Just
Before Their Departure
Prescott at Bunker Hill
Bunker Hill Monument
George Washington
Washington, Henry, and Pendleton on the Way to Congress at
Philadelphia
The Washington Elm at Cambridge, under which Washington took Command
of the Army
Sir William Howe
Thomas Jefferson Looking Over the Rough Draught of the Declaration
of Independence
The Retreat from Long Island
Nathan Hale
British and Hessian Soldiers
Powder-Horn, Bullet-Flask, and Buckshot-Pouch Used in the Revolution
General Burgoyne Surrendering to General Gates
Marquis de Lafayette
Lafayette Offering His Services to Franklin
Winter at Valley Forge
Nathanael Greene
The Meeting of Greene and Gates upon Greene's Assuming Command
Daniel Morgan
Francis Marion
Marion Surprising a British Wagon-Train
John Paul Jones
Battle Between the Ranger and the Drake
The Fight Between the Bon Homme Richard and the Serapis
Daniel Boone
Boone's Escape from the Indians
Boonesborough
Boone Throwing Tobacco into the Eyes of the Indians Who Had Come to
Capture Him
James Robertson
Living-Room of the Early Settler
Grinding Indian Corn
A Kentucky Pioneer's Cabin
John Sevier
A Barbecue of 1780
Battle of King's Mountain
George Rogers Clark
Clark on the Way to Kaskaskia
Clark's Surprise at Kaskaskia
Wampum Peace Belt
Clark's Advance on Vincennes
George Washington
Washington's Home, Mount Vernon
Tribute Rendered to Washington at Trenton
Washington Taking the Oath of Office as First President, at Federal
Hall, New York City
Washington's Inaugural Chair
Eli Whitney
Whitney's Cotton-Gin
A Colonial Planter
A Slave Settlement
Thomas Jefferson
"Monticello," the Home of Jefferson
A Rice-Field in Louisiana
A Flatboat on the Ohio River
House in New Orleans Where Louis Philippe Stopped in 1798
A Public Building in New Orleans Built in 1794
Meriwether Lewis
William Clark
Buffalo Hunted by Indians
The Lewis and Clark Expedition Working Its Way Westward
Andrew Jackson
"The Hermitage," the Home of Andrew Jackson
Fighting the Seminole Indians, under Jackson
Robert Fulton
Fulton's First Experiment with Paddle-Wheels
The "Clermont" in Duplicate at the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, 1909
The Opening of the Erie Canal in 1825
The Ceremony Called "The Marriage of the Waters"
Erie Canal on the Right and Aqueduct over the Mohawk River, New York
"Tom Thumb," Peter Cooper's Locomotive Working Model, First Used
near Baltimore in 1830
Railroad Poster of 1843
Comparison of "DeWitt Clinton" Locomotive and Train, the First Train
Operated in New York, with a Modern Locomotive of the New
York Central R.R.
S.F.B. Morse
The First Telegraph Instrument
Modern Telegraph Office
The Operation of the Modern Railroad is Dependent upon the Telegraph
Sam Houston
Flag of the Republic of Texas
David Crockett
The Fight at the Alamo
John C. Frémont
Frémont's Expedition Crossing the Rocky Mountains
Kit Carson
Sutter's Mill
Placer-Mining

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