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De Soto and his Men in the Land of Florida.
- By Grace King, Author of "New Orleans: the Place and the People," "Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville," "Balcony Stories," etc. Illustrated by George Gibes.
A story based upon Spanish and Portuguese accounts of "Conquest" by the brilliant armada which sailed under De Soto in 1538 to subdue this country. Miss King gives most entertaining stories of the invaders' struggles and of their final demoralized rout; while her account of the native tribes is a most attractive feature of the narrative.
Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors. Tales of 1812.
- By James Barnes. Illustrated by R. F. Zogbaum and C. T. Chapman.
"Mr. Barnes knows how to tell a story as well as how to write history. His style is terse and full of movement; his book one that old and young may read with zest." —Detroit Free Press.
- By George Cary Eggleston, Author of "A Rebel's Recollections," etc., etc. Illustrated by R. F. Zogbaum.
"Faithfully told stories, bearing every evidence of absolute truth. . . . One's pulses quicken as he becomes acquainted with the heroic deeds of those brave Americans, who were on the losing side, fighting an impossible cause; he sorrows with those who felt the tragedy of it all. It is a volume which every boy and girl, as well as every man and woman in America, may read with profitable interest."
"Such capital reading that no one can fail to enjoy them."
Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic.
- By Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Author of "Young Folks' History of the United States," "Malbone," "Cheerful Yesterdays," etc. Illustrated by Albert Herter.
Legends with which the people of Europe were for many centuries fed in regard to the countries beyond the seas now known as America. "No national history has been less prosaic in its earlier traditions," says Colonel Higginson, who relates in a manner which shows strong sympathy and learned research these wonderful stories which for a thousand years were told of a mysterious island in the Atlantic.
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Among other Volumes to follow are:
Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts.
- By Frank R. Stockton, Author of "Rudder Grange," etc., etc. Illustrated by G. Varian and G. W. Clinedinst.
Stories of the rise and decline of buccaneering and piracy in our West Indian waters. Spanish exactions grew so monstrous in the seventeenth century that English, French, and Dutch combined against their excesses. The buccaneers, who were the result of the combination, became later pirates for private gain. Mr. Stockton's quaint humor brightens the stories of their dark deeds in characteristic style. The book is unique.
The Story of Old Fort Loudon.
- A Tale of the Cherokees and the Pioneers of Tennessee, 1760. By Charles Egbert Craddock, Author of "Where the Battle was Fought," "The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountain," etc. Illustrated by E. C. Peixotto.
A narrative of the life of the pioneers of Tennessee and their fortunes at the hands of the Cherokees in the uprising of 1760. The brilliant Tennessee landscape and the old frontier fort serve as a background to this picture of Indian craft and guile and pioneer hardships and pleasures.
- By Gilbert Parker, Author of "Pierre and his People," "A Romany of the Snows," etc., etc.
Stories of men who made history in the old days of the rule of the Hudson Bay Company,—a comparatively unknown, yet most fascinating chapter in American history, of which Mr. Parker's short stories have given us glimpses from time to time.
Californian History and Exploration.
- By Charles H. Shinn.
From the snows of the north to the orange groves of Lower California is a strong contrast, but just as the old trapper and the "company's agent" haunt one in the north like ghosts from an old past, so in the ruined vineyards of the old "dobe missions" are the haunting footsteps of their earliest settlers, the Spanish fathers, and an equally fascinating heritage of historical records.
- By C. G. D. Roberts.
Other Volumes are to follow.
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