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Excerpt from The Story of America for Young Americans Chapter I. - I ntroductory II. - Columbus and the Discovery of America III. - The Indians IV. - Discoverers following Columbus z - Cabot, Americus Vespucius, Balboa, Ponce de Leon, Magellan, Cortez, Verrazano, Cartier, De Soto, Coronado, Menendez V. - Sir Walter Raleigh VL - John Smith and the Founding of Virginia VII. - Henry Hudson and the Founding of New York VIII - The Pilgrims and the Founding of Massachusetts IX. - The Puritans and Other Settlers in New England X. - Roger Williams and the Founding of Rhode Island XI. - Lord Baltimore and the Founding of Maryland XII. - The Founders of North Carolina and South Carolina XML - William Penn and the Founding of Pennsylvania XIV - James Oglethorpe and the Founding of Georgia XV. - Life of the Early Colonists XVI. - Indian Wars XVII. - The French in America XVIII. - The Revolutionary War XIX. - George Washington XX. - Benjamin Franklin XXL - Daniel Boone and the Founding of Kentucky XXII. - ]ames Robertson and John Sevier - the Founders of Tennessee XXIII. - George Rogers Clarke XXIV. - Our Country at the Close of the Revolutionary W'ar XXV. - Rufus Putnam and Settlements in the Ohio alley XXVI. - Thomas Jefferson XXVII. - The War of 1812. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.