ry
of the purchase from France of the great Louisiana country a century
before. Two years later the large city of San Francisco was destroyed by
earthquake and fire, with great loss of life and property.

One thing more must be spoken of, for with this President Roosevelt had
much to do. This was to have great dams built on the mountain streams of
the West, so as to bring water to millions of acres of barren lands and
make them rich and fertile. Also, to save the forests, nearly
200,000,000 acres of forest land were set aside as the property of the
nation and kept from the axes of the woodcutters.

The time for another Presidential election came In 1908, but Mr.
Roosevelt would not run for the office again. I fancy he was tired of it
and wanted to do some real hunting, for he soon set out for Africa, the
land of the largest and fiercest animals on the earth. Here is the
elephant, the rhinoceros, the lion, the wild buffalo and other savage
beasts, and he spent a year in killing these animals and in keeping them
from killing him. I have no doubt you would like to read of the exciting
time he had in this great hunting trip, but I must stop here and leave
it untold, for it is no part of the Story of Our Country.

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Transcriber's note:

The list of illustrations listed the photograph of the Steam Shovel at
Work as being the frontispiece. The book itself placed the photograph
between pages 182 and 183. As there is no reference to Panama or the
Steam Shovel in this chapter, it was moved to the front to be the
frontispiece as listed.

Obvious punctuation errors were corrected.

Page 16, "Northman" changed to "Northmen" (Northmen, named Leif)

Page 31, "siezed" changed to "seized" (governor seized him)

Page 38, "Chespeake" changed to "Chesapeake" (the broad Chesapeake)

Page 142, "Andre" changed to "Andre" (Major Andre, a)

Page 171, "who" changed to "whom" (to whom should be)

Page 217, "Virgnia" changed to "Virginia" (fighting in Virginia)

Page 270, "traveller" changed to "traveler" to match rest of book's
usage (greeted the traveler)

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