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Table of Contents

       Preface

       Group I. Three Rival Civilizations

       I. The Spaniards

       An Historic Era.

       De Soto's Discovery of the Mississippi.

       Death and Burial of de Soto.

       The Indians of Florida.

       How New Mexico Came to be Explored.

       "The Marvellous Country."

       Folk Lore of the Pueblos.

       Last Days of Charles V. and Philip II.

       Sword and Gown in California.

       II. The French

       Prelude

       Westward by the Great Inland Waterways.

       The Situation in A.D. 1672.

       Count Frontenac.

       Joliet and Marquette.

       The Man La Salle.

       La Salle, Prince of Explorers.

       Discovery of the Upper Mississippi.

       The Lost Colony: St. Louis of Texas.

       Iberville Founds Louisiana.

       France Wins the Prize.

       Louis XIV.

       III. The English

       The Bleak North-West Coast.

       Hudson's Bay to the South Sea.

       The Russians in Alaska.

       England on the Pacific.

       Queen Elizabeth.

       Interlude. — What Jonathan Carver Aimed to Do in 1766.

       John Ledyard's Idea.

       A Yankee Ship Discovers the Columbia River.

       The West at the Opening of the Century.

       Group II. Birth of the American Idea

       I. America for Americans

       Acquisition of Louisiana.

       A Glance at Our Purchase.

       II. The Pathfinders

       Lewis and Clarke Ascend the Missouri.

       They Cross the Continent.

       Pike Explores the Arkansas Valley. Pike's Peak a Landmark.

       New Mexico in 1807.

       Gold in Colorado. A Trapper's Story.

       The Flag in Oregon.

       Louisiana Admitted.

       III. The Oregon Trail

       The Trapper, The Backwoodsman, and The Emigrant.

       Long Explores the Platte Valley.

       Missouri,