AMERICAN HISTORY FOR YOUNG FOLKS

No publisher. No place. 1898., 1898 "Color illustrated cloth with illustrations on the front cover, spine and rear cover. Patterned end papers. 422 pages. Small 4to. Illustrated throughout with nearly two hundred full page illustrations and in-text images. Also, color two page fold-out color map of the U.S. and a black/white two page fold-out map of Santiago De Cuba. History of the United States designed for the younger reader (Perhaps around the eighth grade level) beginning with the Northmen's discovery of North America around the year 1000 and continuing to 1896. Additional Title Page information: "Including A Complete Account of the Norsemen; The Mound-Builders; Voyages of Columbus; Hardships of Early Settlers; The Landing of the Pilgrims; King Philip's War; French and Indian Wars; The Story of Canada--The Struggle for Liberty in the Revolution-The Second War With England; Progress and Development of the United States; The Great Civil War; The War With Spain and the Latest Events in American History". This looks very much like a book ordered from a traveling book salesman--it has that appearance. It is fun and informative to read these older history books as they contain much information left out of the modern day books. A well used copy with heavy rubbing to the spine edges; page after the front end paper missing. A rather shabby copy but with a clean and complete interior and intact hinges. FAIR to GOOD Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng". Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.