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The Story of American History for Elementary Schools

Chapter I · Pages 1-9. AMERICA IN THE OLD DAYS.

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Chapter I. Pages 1-9. AMERICA IN THE OLD DAYS.

Topics for Collateral Reading.—The following topics are thoroughly discussed in Fiske's Discovery of America:—

The People of Ancient America, Vol. I, pp. 1-19; Origin of the American Indians, Vol. I, p. 19; The Indians of the Pueblos, Vol. I, p. 82; The Mysterious Mound Builders, Vol. I, p. 140; Voyages of the Northmen to Vinland, Vol. I, p. 164.

References for Reading.—For a readable account of the Mound Builders and the American Indians, consult Shaler's The Story of Our Continent.

Outside Readings.—Starr's American Indians; The Voyages to Vinland from the Saga of Eric the Red, Old South Leaflets, No. 32; Glasscock's Stories of Columbia.

For Reading or Recitation.—Whittier's Norumbega and Norsemen; Longfellow's Skeleton in Armor.

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