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EVERY CHILD CAN READ EDITED BY

REV. JESSE LYMAN HURLBUT, D.D.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

A TALK WITH THE YOUNG READER ABOUT THE HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY

THE STORY OF OUR COUNTRY

CHAPTER I COLUMBUS, THE GREAT SAILOR IF any of my young readers

CHAPTER II THREE GREAT DISCOVERERS VERY likely some of the

CHAPTER III THREE EARLY HEROES

CHAPTER IV THE DUTCH AND THE QUAKERS COME TO AMERICA I WONDER

CHAPTER V THE CAVALIER COLONIES OF THE SOUTH VIRGINIA has often

CHAPTER VI THE RED MEN, HOW THEY LIVED AND WERE TREATED NOW

CHAPTER VII ROYAL GOVERNORS AND LOYAL CAPTAINS

CHAPTER VIII OLD TIMES IN THE COLONIES WHAT a wonderful change

CHAPTER IX A HERO OF THE COLONIES DO you not think there are a

CHAPTER X THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR AND THE STORY OF THE

CHAPTER XI THE CAUSES OF THE REVOLUTION

CHAPTER XII FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM ANY of my readers who are

CHAPTER XIII PAUL JONES, THE NAVAL HERO OF THE REVOLUTION WE

CHAPTER XIV MARION THE SWAMP FOX AND GENERAL GREENE FAR away

CHAPTER XV THE VOYAGE OF OUR SHIP OF STATE

CHAPTER XVI THE END OF A NOBLE LIFE EVERY four years a great

CHAPTER XVII THE STEAMBOAT AND THE COTTON GIN I THINK you must

CHAPTER XVIII THE ENGLISH AND AMERICANS FIGHT AGAIN FOR years

CHAPTER XIX HOW THE VICTIMS OF THE ALAMO WERE REVENGED I HAVE

CHAPTER XX HOW SLAVERY LED TO WAR ALL of my young readers must

CHAPTER XXI HOW LINCOLN BECAME PRESIDENT I SHOULD like to tell

CHAPTER XXII THE GREAT CIVIL WAR I HAVE no doubt that some of

CHAPTER XXIII WAR ON SEA AND LAND I HAVE told you part of the

CHAPTER XXIV THE WASTE OF WAR AND THE WEALTH OF PEACE LET us

CHAPTER XXV THE MARVELS OF INVENTION

CHAPTER XXVI HOW THE CENTURY ENDED FOR THE UNITED STATES VERY

CHAPTER XXVII HOW A HUNTER BECAME PRESIDENT I THINK it very

Title: The Story of Our Country

Every Child Can Read

Editor: Jesse Lyman Hurlbut

Language: English

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