Front matter
Reading edition
Transcriber's Note: Original spelling and grammar has been retained except in the following instances: on page 45, "four hundred vears" was changed to "four hundred years", on page 62, "book are transscriptions" was changed to "book are transcriptions", and on page 131, "United States received the territorry" to "United States received the territory". The original contains both 'dooryard' and 'door-yard' as well as 'stage coach' and 'stage-coach'.
