Chapter III: The West

THE SETTLER, Alfred B. Street 329
THE MOTHERS OF THE WEST, William Davis Gallagher 330
ON THE EMIGRATION TO AMERICA, Philip Freneau 331
JOHN FILSON, William Henry Venable 331
SAINCLAIRE'S DEFEAT, Unknown 332
JOHNNY APPLESEED, William Henry Venable 334
THE FOUNDERS OF OHIO, William Henry Venable 335
BLENNERHASSETT'S ISLAND, Thomas Buchanan Read 335
THE BATTLE OF MUSKINGUM, William Harrison Safford 337
TO AARON BURR, UNDER TRIAL FOR HIGH TREASON, Sarah Wentworth
Morton 338
THE BATTLE OF TIPPECANOE, Unknown 339
THE TOMB OF THE BRAVE, Joseph Hutton 339
SA-CÁ-GA-WE-A, Edna Dean Proctor 340
ON THE DISCOVERIES OF CAPTAIN LEWIS, Joel Barlow 341
WHITMAN'S RIDE FOR OREGON, Hezekiah Butterworth 342
DISCOVERY OF SAN FRANCISCO BAY, Richard Edward White 343
JOHN CHARLES FRÉMONT, Charles F. Lummis 345
"THE DAYS OF 'FORTY-NINE," Unknown 345
THE OLD SANTA FÉ TRAIL, Richard Burton 346
CALIFORNIA, Lydia Huntley Sigourney 346

CHAPTER IV

_Through Five Administrations_

THEODOSIA BURR, John Williamson Palmer 346
ON THE DEATH OF COMMODORE OLIVER H. PERRY, John G. C.
Brainard 347
ON THE DEATH OF JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE, Fitz-Greene Halleck 348
ON LAYING THE CORNER-STONE OF THE BUNKER HILL MONUMENT, John
Pierpont 348
LA FAYETTE, Dolly Madison 349
THE DEATH OF JEFFERSON, Hezekiah Butterworth 349
OLD IRONSIDES, Oliver Wendell Holmes 351
CONCORD HYMN, Ralph Waldo Emerson 351
THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 351
OLD TIPPECANOE, Unknown 353
THE DEATH OF HARRISON, Nathaniel Parker Willis 353