Chapter I: Reconstruction and After

TO THE THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS, John Greenleaf Whittier 559
"MR. JOHNSON'S POLICY OF RECONSTRUCTION," Charles Graham
Halpine 559
THADDEUS STEVENS, Phoebe Cary 560
SOUTH CAROLINA TO THE STATES OF THE NORTH, Paul Hamilton
Hayne 561
KU-KLUX, Madison Cawein 562
THE REAR GUARD, Irene Fowler Brown 562
THE BLUE AND THE GRAY, Francis Miles Finch 563
THE STRICKEN SOUTH TO THE NORTH, Paul Hamilton Hayne 564
HOW CYRUS LAID THE CABLE, John Godfrey Saxe 565
THE CABLE HYMN, John Greenleaf Whittier 565
AN ARCTIC VISION, Bret Harte 566
ALASKA, Joaquin Miller 567
ISRAEL FREYER'S BID FOR GOLD, Edmund Clarence Stedman 567
CHICAGO, John Greenleaf Whittier 568
CHICAGO, Bret Harte 569
CHICAGO, John Boyle O'Reilly 569
BOSTON, John Boyle O'Reilly 570
THE CHURCH OF THE REVOLUTION, Hezekiah Butterworth 570
AFTER THE FIRE, Oliver Wendell Holmes 571
THE RIDE OF COLLINS GRAVES, John Boyle O'Reilly 571

CHAPTER II

_The Year of a Hundred Years_

OUR FIRST CENTURY, George Edward Woodberry 572
CENTENNIAL HYMN, John Greenleaf Whittier 573
THE CENTENNIAL MEDITATION OF COLUMBIA, Sidney Lanier 573
CENTENNIAL HYMN, William Cullen Bryant 574
WELCOME TO THE NATIONS, Oliver Wendell Holmes 574
THE NATIONAL ODE, Bayard Taylor 575
OUR NATIONAL BANNER, Dexter Smith 578
AFTER THE CENTENNIAL, Christopher Pearse Cranch 578

CHAPTER III

_The Conquest of the Plains_

THE PACIFIC RAILWAY, C. R. Ballard 579
AFTER THE COMANCHES, Unknown 579
DOWN THE LITTLE BIG HORN, Francis Brooks 580
LITTLE BIG HORN, Ernest McGaffey 581
CUSTER'S LAST CHARGE, Frederick Whittaker 582
CUSTER, Edmund Clarence Stedman 583
THE REVENGE OF RAIN-IN-THE-FACE, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 583
MILES KEOGH'S HORSE, John Hay 584
ON THE BIG HORN, John Greenleaf Whittier 585
THE "GREY HORSE TROOP," Robert W. Chambers 585
GERONIMO, Ernest McGaffey 586
THE LAST RESERVATION, Walter Learned 586
INDIAN NAMES, Lydia Huntley Sigourney 587