Chapter XXII: Part II: American Poetry and Fiction

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1. Episodes from “The Winning of the West”

By THEODORE ROOSEVELT

2. Abraham Lincoln: His Boyhood and Early Manhood, with a Brief
Account of his Later Life

By NOAH BROOKS

3. The Fur Traders of the Columbia River and the Rocky Mountains as
described by WASHINGTON IRVING in his Account of “Astoria” and the
record of the “Adventures of Captain Bonneville,” with some
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Transcriber’s notes

New original cover art included with this ebook is granted to the public domain.

The footnotes have been renumbered and moved to the end of the item in which they occur.

Duplicated chapter titles have been removed and references to page numbers adjusted accordingly.

Italic text is enclosed in _underscores_. Small capital text has been changed to all capital.

Following the original, spaces have been retained in abbreviations such as “I ’m”, “you ’re” , etc.

Irregular spelling and hyphenation have been retained.

Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. The following changes have been made:

An opening quotation mark has been placed before Liberty in the last line of the last stanza of the poem on page 243 instead of before the last line of the previous stanza.

A closing quotation mark has been added after Vasílevich on page 388.