Excerpt from A Pictorial History of the United States of America, From the Earliest Discoveries by the Northmen in the Tenth Century, to the Present Time: Comprising a Description of the Aborigines, Their Manners, Customs and Antiquities, and a Full Account of the Western States, Their Settlements, Rapid Progress, EtcPerformance, to produce something which shall be found free from the above defects. It has been his intention, throughout, to make the work serviceable in the highest degree, both as a school-book and as a volume adapted to the fireside and the student's closet; to relate everything necessary to be known in the history of our country, with the utmost accuracy in the narrative and precision in the dates; and, at the same time, to preserve those interesting details, anecdotes, and illustrations, which constitute the life and soul of history, and without which such a work as this would become little better than a chronological table, or a dry and dull compilation of annals, difficult to read, and impossible to remember.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition.

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