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The Great Republic, Vol. 1 of 4 (Classic Reprint)
The Great Republic Vol 1 of 4 - Classic Reprint Author:Charles Morris THE GREAT REPUBLIC BY THE MASTER HISTORIANS. THE PERIOD BEFORE COLUMBUS. ON THE 0MG1N OF THE AMERICANS. Hubert H. Bancroft. [The written history of America beglns with the year 1492, the date of the first voyage of Columbus to its previously-unknown shores. Yet there pertains to the preceding period a considerable variety of interesting materia!... more » of a semi-historical character,-» in part traditional, legendary, and speculative, in part based on researches into the languages, race-characteristics, customs, and antiquities of the American aborigines. Some attention to the abundant literature relating to this earlier epoch seems desirable as a preface to the recent history of America. This literature i3 in no proper sense American history, yet it is all we know of the existence of man upon this continent during the ages preceding the close of the fifteenth Century. It is far too voluminous, and, as a rule, too speculative, to be dealt with othenvise than very brieny, yet it ca
Table of Contents
SUBJECT AUTHOR PAGE; On the Orlgin of the Americans Hubert H Bancroft 9; The Kingdom of Fusang S Wblls Williams i8 Discovery of America by the North-; men ARTHUR J WEISE 23; Tbe Aboriginea of America ? Charles Morris a8 Columbus in Europe William Robertson 40 The Discovery of America by Columbus Washington Irving 49; The Discovery of the Pacific by Baiboa Thomas F Gordon 61; Retreat of Cortes from the City of; Mexico Whiiam H Prescott 6g; Hernando de Soto N D'Anvbrs 80; Tte Discovery of tbe St Lawrence John McMullen 8g Tfcc Masaacrc of the Frcnch Protco-; tants Walter Besant 97; The Colonies of Sir Walter Raleigb Mary Howitt 105; Introductory Remarka 114; John Smith and the Jamestown; Colony' Charles Campbell 116; The Indian Massacre In Virginia Robert R Howison 130; The Settlement of Maryland J Thomas Scharf 138; The Landing of the Pilgrims John Gorham Palfrey 145; Religious Dissensions In New England William Robert« less