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This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index CONTENTS CHAPTER ONE The Land and the Indian CHAPTER TWO The London Company CHAPTER THREE Virginia as a Royal Colony CHAPTER FOUR Royal Administration of Land Policy CHAPTER FIVE The Northern Neck RETROSPECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

This edition features a linked Table of Contents and linked Index. CONTENTS (abridged list) The Author's Preface Part I Virginia's Attitude Toward Slavery and Secession Defined I. Introduction II. Virginia—Slavery and Secession Part II Virginia Did Not Secede in Order to Extend Slavery into...

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes CONTENTS EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION AUTHOR'S PREFACE I. GENESIS OF ENGLISH COLONIZATION (1492-1579) II. GILBERT AND RALEIGH COLONIES (1583-1602) III. FOUNDING OF VIRGINIA (1602-1608) IV. GLOOM IN VIRGINIA (1608-1617) V....

The Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson Compiled from Family Letters and Reminiscences, by His Great-granddaughter, Sarah N. Randolph This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes CONTENTS (abridged list) CHAPTER I. Jefferson's Birthplace.—Sketch...

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS WAR DIARY OF A UNION WOMAN IN THE SOUTH THE LOCOMOTIVE CHASE IN GEORGIA MOSBY'S "PARTIZAN RANGERS" A ROMANCE OF MORGAN'S ROUGH-RIDERS COLONEL ROSE'S TUNNEL AT LIBBY PRISON A HARD ROAD TO TRAVEL OUT OF DIXIE ESCAPE OF GENERAL BRECKINRIDGE

This edition features illustrations. Excerpt The months just preceding the year 1676 were marked in Virginia by ominous signs of disaster. A great comet streamed through the sky "like a horsetail," and it was well known that that meant pestilence or war. Then came tens of thousands...

Excerpt ...During the twenty-five years intervening since the death of John Brown, the Drama of Life has been played with far more than the usual variation. In no equal space of time since the recording of events began, have more pages of history been turned than during the quarter of a century just...

This edition features a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index CONTENTS (abridged list) I. The Advancing Frontier II. Indian Wrongs and Discontent III. The Unprotected Frontier IV. The Grindstone War and the Death of Sidominadota V. The Frontier and the Winter of 1856-1857 VI. Okoboji...

This edition features a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS PREFACE. CHAPTER I. CATHOLICISM A POLITICAL ORGANIZATION CHAPTER II. THE POLITICAL MACHINERY OF THE PAPAL POWER CHAPTER III. THE MONASTIC VOW OF PERPETUAL SOLITUDE CHAPTER IV. THE MONASTIC VOW OF PERPETUAL SILENCE CHAPTER V. THE MONASTIC...

HANDS UP; OR, THIRTY-FIVE YEARS OF DETECTIVE LIFE IN THE MOUNTAINS AND ON THE PLAINS. Reminiscences by General D. J. Cook, Chief of the Rocky Mountain Detective Association. Compiled by John W. Cook. A Condensed Criminal History of the Far West. This edition features • illustrations • a...

This edition features • a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS Preface Introduction     Historical Sketch     Early History     Main Divisions     Roman Britain     Remains     Introduction...

Life Aboard a British Privateer in the Time of Queen Anne Being the Journal of Captain Woodes Rogers, Master Mariner This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes CONTENTS Introduction CHAPTER I. From King Road, Bristol, to Cork in Ireland CHAPTER...

A NARRATIVE OF THE MUTINY, ON BOARD THE SHIP GLOBE, OF NANTUCKET, IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN, Jan. 1824 AND THE JOURNAL OF A RESIDENCE OF TWO YEARS ON THE MULGRAVE ISLANDS; WITH OBSERVATIONS ON THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE INHABITANTS. BY WILLIAM LAY, OF SAYBROOK, CONN. AND CYRUS M. HUSSEY, OF NANTUCKET:...

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents and Index CONTENTS (abridged list) CHAPTER I THE PACIFIC COAST IN 1845 — SPEECHES OF SENATOR BENTON AND REPORT OF CAPT. FRÉMONT — MY FATHER AND HIS FAMILY — INTEREST AWAKENED IN THE NEW TERRITORY — FORMATION OF...