The World’s Story Volume XII: The United States

02 - The United States Part I: Discovery: Historical note

03 - The great voyage of Leif Ericson (1001), from the Sagas

04 - Columbus (1492), by Joaquin Miller

05 - Verrazzano's letter to the king (1524)

06 - The United States Part II: Stories of the Spanish adventurers: Historical note

07 - Ponce de Leon seeks the fountain of youth (1513), by Frederick A. Ober

08 - A Spanish peddler among the Indians (1528), by Cabeza de Vaca

09 - The story of John Ortiz (1528), by one of the companions of De Soto

10 - When De Soto met the princess (1541), by Theodore Irving

11 - The burial of De Soto in the Mississippi river (1542), by Theodore Irving

12 - The United States Part III: The cliff-dwellers of the Southwest: Historical note

13 - The seven cities of the wilderness, by John Fiske

14 - How the cliff-dwellers lived, by T. Mitchell Prudden

15 - How Little-Blue-Fox fooled the Coyote, a Pueblo folk-story retold by Charles F. Lummis

16 - The storming of the sky-city (1599), by Charles F. Lummis

17 - The United States Part IV: The planting of the Southern colonies: Historical note

18 - The Huguenots in Florida (1562-1565), by George Bancroft

19 - The lost colonoy of Roanoke Island (1584-1587), by Robert Southey

20 - John Smith as a captive among the Indians (1607-1608), by Captain John Smith

21 - Pocahontas and Captain John Smith, by F. C. Yohn, American artist, 1875, painting p. 122

22 - The arrival of ''the King's Maids'' (1620), by Mary Johnston

23 - Life on a Virginia plantation (seventeenth century), by Eva March Tappan

24 - The planting of the colony of Maryland, by Frank B. Mayer, American artist, painting p. 136

25 - How Oglethorpe saved Georgia from Spain (1743), by Cyrus Townsend Brady

26 - The United States Part V: The settlement of New England: Historical note

27 - When Gosnold came to Cuttyhunk (1602), by John Brereton

28 - The departure of the pilgrims from Holland, from an old Dutch painting, painting p. 160

29 - The coming of the pilgrims (1620), by William Elliot Griffis

30 - The challenge of the rattlesnake skin (1621), by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

31 - The graves of the pilgrims, by Henry Bacon, American artist, 1840, painting p. 174

32 - Endicott and the red cross (1634), by Nathaniel Hawthorne

33 - How Providence won its name (1636), by George Bancroft

34 - The Indian Bible (1661-1663), by Nathaniel Hawthorne

35 - Questions that the Indians asked John Eliot

36 - The United States Part VI: New Netherland and Pennsylvania: Historical note

37 - The first voyage up the Hudson river (1609), by John Fiske

38 - How feudalism came to New Netherland (1630), by William Elliot Griffis

39 - Social life in New Netherland (seventeenth century), by William Elliot Griffis

40 - Wouter van Twiller, governor of New Netherland, by Washington Irving

41 - The edict of William the Testy, by George H. Boughton, British-American painter, 1836-1905, painting p. 218

42 - How New Amsterdam became New York (1664), by Washington Irving

43 - William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania (1682), by Eva March Tappan

44 - Penn's treaty with the Indians, by Benjamin West, American artist, 1738-1820, painting p. 238

45 - The United States Part VII: Stories of the Puritans: Historical note

46 - Sunday in the New England colonies (seventeenth century), by Alice Morse Earle

47 - Calling a minister three centuries ago (1652), by Eva March Tappan

48 - The king's missive (1661), by John Greenlead Whittier

49 - How Connecticut saved her charter (1687), by W. H. Carpenter and T. S. Arthur

50 - Sir William Phips, treasure-seeker and soldier (latter part of the seventeenth century), by Charles C. B. Seymour

51 - Were there witches in Salem ? (1692), by John Fiske

52 - The United States Part VIII: Wars with the red men: Historical note

53 - The mysterious champion of Hadley (1675), by Sir Walter Scott

54 - The mysterious visitor at Hadley, by F. A. Chapman, painting p. 300

55 - The captivity of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1676), by herself

56 - The death of King Philip (1676), by Gideon H. Hollister

57 - The capture of Deerfield (1704), by Francis Parkman

58 - The fight at Lovewell's Pond (1725), by Samuel Adams Drake

59 - The United States Part IX: The struggle for the West: Historical note

60 - Why France claimed the Mississippi Valley, by James A. Garfield

61 - Washington's first commission (1753-54), by George Bancroft

62 - Braddock's defeat (1755), by John Fiske

63 - When Israel Putnam was captured by the Indians, an incident of the French and Indian war (1758), by Oliver W. B. Peabody

64 - The conspiracy of Pontiac (1763-1765), by Mary Hartwell Catherwood

65 - The prisoner of Machilimackinac (1763), by Alexander Henry

66 - The United States Part X: ''In good old colony times'': Historical note

67 - Everyday life in the early colonies, by George Cary Eggleston

68 - Blackbeard, the last of the pirates (1718), by John Fiske

69 - Judge Sewall's courtship (1720), by Judge Samuel Sewall

70 - An eighteenth-century voyage down the Hudson river, by James K. Paulding

71 - The dress of a little Boston girl in 1772, by Anna Green Winslow

72 - The United States Part XI: On the eve of the revolution: Historical note

73 - Benjamin Franklin before the House of Commons (1766), by James Parton

74 - The Boston massacre (1770), by Nathaniel Hawthorne

75 - The Boston Tea-Party (1773), by John Fiske

76 - Patrick Henry delivering his celebrated oration, by Peter Frederick Rothermel, American artist, 1817-1895, painting p. 456

77 - ''Give me liberty, or give me death !'' (1775), by Patrick Henry

78 - The United States Part XII: From Lexington to Saratoga: Historical note

79 - The first day of the revolution (1775), by Edward Everett Hale

80 - Grandmother's story of Bunker-Hill battle (1775), as she saw it from the belfry, by Oliver Wendell Holmes

81 - When Washington took command (1775), by Henry Cabot Lodge

82 - How Fort Moultrie was held for the colonies (1776), by George Bancroft

83 - The defense of Fort Moultrie, by E. Percy Moran, American artist, 1862, painting p. 494

84 - The Declaration of Independence (1776), by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

85 - Nathan Hale (1776), by Francis Miles Finch

86 - How Lafayette came to America (1777), by Edward Everett

87 - Why Cornwallis failed to ''bag the old fox'' (1777), by John Fiske

88 - The marching song of Stark's men (1777), by Edward Everett Hale

89 - Burgoyne's surrender (1777), by John Fiske

90 - The United States Part XIII: War in the West and on the ocean: Historical note

91 - How Daniel Boone saved Boonesborough (1775), by Charles C. B. Seymour

92 - A campaign through the water (1778), by George Rogers Clark

93 - How the women brought water to Bryan's station (1782), by Cyrus Townsend Brady

94 - The first salute to the flag (1778), by Sarah Orne Jewett

95 - John Paul Jones in the revolution (1775-1781), by Joel Tyler Headley

96 - The fight between the Serapis and the Bon Homme Richard, by Walt Whitman, from an old engraving, painting p. 588