SCRIBNER'S

POPULAR HISTORY OF

THE UNITED STATES

FROM THE EARLIEST DISCOVERIES OF THE WESTERN
HEMISPHERE BY THE NORTHMEN TO THE PRESENT TIME

BY

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT
SYDNEY HOWARD GAY

NOAH BROOKS

WITH MORE THAN SIXTEEN HUNDRED
ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS

VOLUME I

NEW YORK

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

1897

COPYRIGHT, 1876, BY

SCRIBNER, ARMSTRONG & CO.

COPYRIGHT, 1881, 1896, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

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