Stones from American History

The Story of the American Merchant Marine

By JOHN R. SPEARS

Although to-day the American merchant shipping is confined almost entirely to a small coastwise trade, there is no chapter in our history of which we should be more justly proud than that which tells the story of our commercial supremacy on the high seas. It was in the merchant marine that the American spirit of adventure in the middle of the last century found its chosen field. The daring of the captains, their skill and determination, have left behind them a great collection of stirring tales of the sea which no one can read without a thrill of regret that those days have forever gone from the ocean.

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The Last American Frontier

By FREDERICK LOGAN PAXSON

The winning of the first frontier established America's first white settlement, later struggles added the frontiers of the Alleghanies and the Ohio, of the Mississippi and Missouri. The winning of the last frontier completed the conquest of the continent. It is the story of this last frontier that Professor Paxson tells in this book. " The Last American Frontier " is a story of the West as it was, a story of the West from which has sprung our conception of the traditional cowboy, of the Indians of the plains, the pony express, the rush of the gold miners, all that is most wild and stirring in our history.

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Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors

By JAMES BARNES

Tales of 1812, by the author of " Drake and his Yeomen," " For King and Country," etc. Illustrated by R. F. Zogbaum and Carlton T. Chapman.

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The Story of Old Fort Loudon

By CHARLES EGBERT CRADDOCK

A Tale of the Cherokees and the Pioneers of Tennessee, 1760, by the author of "The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountain." Illustrated by Ernest C. Peixotto.

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