ot given justice to the Spanish Pioneers is
simply because we have been misled. They made a record unparalleled; but
our text-books have not recognized that fact, though they no longer dare
dispute it. Now, thanks to the New School of American History, we are
coming to the truth,--a truth which every manly American will be glad to
know. In this country of free and brave men, race-prejudice, the most
ignorant of all human ignorances, must die out. We must respect manhood
more than nationality, and admire it for its own sake wherever
found,--and it is found everywhere. The deeds that hold the world up are
not of any one blood. We may be born anywhere,--that is a mere
accident; but to be heroes we must grow by means which are not
accidents nor provincialisms, but the birthright and glory of humanity.

We love manhood; and the Spanish pioneering of the Americas was the
largest and longest and most marvellous feat of manhood in all history.
It was not possible for a Saxon boy to learn that truth in my boyhood;
it is enormously difficult, if possible, now. The hopelessness of trying
to get from any or all English text-books a just picture of the Spanish
hero in the New World made me resolve that no other young American lover
of heroism and justice shall need to grope so long in the dark as I had
to; and for the following glimpses into the most interesting of stories
he has to thank me less than that friend of us both, A. F. Bandelier,
the master of the New School. Without the light shed on early America by
the scholarship of this great pupil of the great Humboldt, my book could
not have been written,--nor by me without his generous personal aid.

C. F. L.

CONTENTS.

I. The Broad Story.

CHAPTER PAGE

I. THE PIONEER NATION 17

II. A MUDDLED GEOGRAPHY 25

III. COLUMBUS THE FINDER 36

IV. MAKING GEOGRAPHY 43

V. THE CHAPTER OF CONQUEST 56

VI. A GIRDLE ROUND THE WORLD 71

VII. SPAIN IN THE UNITED STATES 78

VIII. TWO CONTINENTS MASTERED 90

II. Specimen Pioneers.

I. THE FIRST AMERICAN TRAVELLER 101

II. THE GREATEST AMERICAN TRAVELLER 117

III. THE WAR OF THE ROCK 125

IV. THE STORMING OF THE SKY-CI