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A series, made up from the best on this subject in THE CENTURY and ST. NICHOLAS, for students of the upper grammar grades and the first year high school. Profusely illustrated.
EXPLORERS and SETTLERS THE COLONISTS AND THE REVOLUTION A NEW NATION THE WESTWARD MOVEMENT THE CIVIL WAR THE PROGRESS OF A UNITED PEOPLE
[Illustration: From the sculpture by Frederick Mac Monnies. Kit Carson, the Pioneer. See pages 173 and 174.]
CENTURY READINGS IN UNITED STATES HISTORY
COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY THE CENTURY CO. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO REPRODUCE THIS BOOK, OR PORTIONS THEREOF, IN ANY FORM. 326
BEGINNINGS OF THE WESTWARD MOVEMENT _S. E. Forman_ 3
THE SETTLEMENT OF THE WEST _Emerson Hough_ 14
EARLY WESTERN STEAMBOATING _Archer B. Hulbert_ 56
GEORGE ROGERS CLARK _Theodore Roosevelt_ 61
BOONE'S WILDERNESS ROAD _Archer B. Hulbert_ 69
THE FIRST EMIGRANT TRAIN TO CALIFORNIA _John Bidwell_ 119
RÉSUMÉ OF FRÉMONT'S EXPEDITIONS _M. N. O._ 140
ROUGH TIMES IN ROUGH PLACES _C. G. McGehee_ 151
THE MACMONNIES PIONEER MONUMENT FOR DENVER 173
THE DISCOVERY OF GOLD IN CALIFORNIA _John S. Hittell_ 175
Acknowledgment is made of the courtesy of Archer B. Hulbert in granting permission to use the articles on "Early Western Steamboating," and "Boone's Wilderness Road," from his book "Historic Highways."
From Europe's proud, despotic shores Hither the stranger takes his way, And in our new-found world explores A happier soil, a milder sway, Where no proud despot holds him down, No slaves insult him with a crown.
From these fair plains, these rural seats, So long concealed, so lately known, The unsocial Indian far retreats, To make some other clime his own, Where other streams, less pleasing, flow, And darker forests round him grow.
No longer shall your princely flood From distant lakes be swelled in vain, No longer through a darksome wood Advance unnoticed to the main; Far other ends the heavens decree-- And commerce plans new freights for thee.
While virtue warms the generous breast, There heaven-born freedom shall reside, Nor shall the voice of war molest, Nor Europe's all-aspiring pride-- There Reason shall new laws devise, And order from confusion rise.