CONTENTS.
Reading edition
I. The Broad Story.
CHAPTER PAGE
I. The Pioneer Nation 17
II. A Muddled Geography 25
III. Columbus the Finder 36
IV. Making Geography 43
V. The Chapter of Conquest 56
VI. A Girdle Round the World 71
VII. Spain in the United States 78
VIII. Two Continents Mastered 90
II. Specimen Pioneers.
I. The First American Traveller 101
II. The Greatest American Traveller 117
III. The War of the Rock 125
IV. The Storming of the Sky-City 135
V. The Soldier Poet 144
VI. The Pioneer Missionaries 149
VII. The Church-builders in New Mexico 158
VIII. Alvarado's Leap 170
IX. The American Golden Fleece 181
III. The Greatest Conquest.
I. The Swineherd of Truxillo 203
II. The Man Who Would Not Give Up 215
III. Gaining Ground 225
IV. Peru As It Was 238
V. The Conquest of Peru 246
VI. The Golden Ransom 257
VII. Atahualpa's Treachery and Death 265
VIII. Founding a Nation.—the Siege of Cuzco 275
IX. The Work of Traitors 284