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The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Story of Our Country, Edited by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Story of Our Country Every Child Can Read Editor: Jesse Lyman Hurlbut Release Date: May 16, 2010 [eBook #32402] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STORY OF OUR COUNTRY*** E-text prepared by Emmy, Tor Martin Kristiansen, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 32402-h.htm or 32402-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32402/32402-h/32402-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32402/32402-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See http://www.archive.org/details/storyofourcountr00hurl THE STORY OF OUR COUNTRY Every Child Can Read Edited by REV. JESSE LYMAN HURLBUT, D.D. Illustrated [Illustration: STEAM SHOVEL AT WORK IN CULEBRA CUT, PANAMA CANAL.] [Illustration] The John C. Winston Co. Philadelphia Copyright, 1910, By The John C. Winston Co. TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE A Talk with the Young Reader 9 CHAPTER I COLUMBUS, THE GREAT SAILOR Bold Sailors of the Northern Countries--The Northmen--Columbus the Little Boy--Columbus and the Egg--He Crosses the Atlantic, Braves the Sea and Discovers New Land 15 CHAPTER II THREE GREAT DISCOVERERS John and Sebastian Cabot--Balboa Discovers the Pacific--The Fountain of Youth and Ponce de Leon--The Naming of America 27 CHAPTER III THREE EARLY HEROES The Story of John Smith and First English Settlement--Miles Standish and the Pilgrims--Roger Williams, the Hero Preacher 36 CHAPTER IV HOW TH
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