When America was young / by John T. Faris ...

Author:: Faris, John T. (John Thomson), 1871-1949
Published:: New York ; London : Harper & brothers, 1925.
Physical Description:: xiii, 372 pages : frontispiece, illustrations (maps) plates, portraits, facsimiles ; 23 cm

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The checkered story of manufacture and commerce.--Glimpses of houses and home life.--A half hour with ye colonial editor.--Educational beginnings.--Pioneer travelers of a hundred years.--George Washington as revealed by his correspondence.--The capital in the woods.--How the cities looked.--Two centuries of the Post office.--The story of lotteries in America.--In the days of the pirates.--"On the field of honor."--In the days of canals.--Acres by the million.--A squandered inheritance.--Holidays and feast days.

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Map on front lining-paper.

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Bibliography: pages 350-354.

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