Transcriber's Note: Inconsistent hyphenation and spelling in the original document have been preserved. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Italic text is denoted by _underscores_. The page numbers of this Volume start with 275 (continuing the numbering from Volume 1 of this work). On page 282 guerillas should possibly be guerrillas. On page 293 vigilants should possibly be vigilantes. [Illustration] _EDITION ARTISTIQUE_ The World's Famous Places and Peoples AMERICA BY JOEL COOK In Six Volumes Volume II. MERRILL AND BAKER New York London THIS EDITION ARTISTIQUE OF THE WORLD'S FAMOUS PLACES AND PEOPLES IS LIMITED TO ONE THOUSAND NUMBERED AND REGISTERED COPIES, OF WHICH THIS COPY IS NO. 205 Copyright, Henry T. Coates & Co., 1900 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS VOLUME II PAGE MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, YELLOWSTONE _Frontispiece_ THE SUSQUEHANNA WEST OF FALMOUTH 284 THE CONEMAUGH NEAR FLORENCE 312 ON THE ASHLEY, NEAR CHARLESTON, S. C. 352 ON THE OCKLAWAHA 382 LINCOLN MONUMENT, LINCOLN PARK, CHICAGO 432 CROSSING THE ALLEGHENIES. IV. CROSSING THE ALLEGHENIES. The Old Pike -- The National Road -- Early Routes Across the Mountains -- Old Lancaster Road -- Columbia Railroad -- The Pennsylvania Route -- Haverford College -- Villa Nova -- Bryn Mawr College -- Paoli -- General Wayne -- The Chester Valley -- Pequea Valley -- The Conestogas -- Lancaster -- Franklin and Marshall College -- James Buchanan -- Thaddeus Stevens -- Conewago Hills -- Susquehanna River -- Columbia -- The Underground Railroad -- Middletown -- Lochiel -- Simon Cameron -- The Clan Cameron -- Harrisburg -- Charles Dickens and the Camel's Back Bridge -- John Harris -- Lincoln's Midnight Ride -- Cumberland Valley -- Carlisle -- Indian School -- Dickinson College -- The Whisky Insurrection -- Tom the Tinker -- Lebanon Valley -- Cornwall Ore Banks -- Otsego Lake -- Cooperstown -- James Fenimore Cooper -- Richfield Springs -- Cherry Valley -- Sharon Springs -- Howe's Cave -- Binghamton -- Northumberland -- Williamsport -- Sunbury -- Fort Augusta -- The Dauphin Gap -- Duncannon -- Duncan's Island -- Juniata River -- Tuscarora Gap -- The Grasshopper War -- Mifflin -- Lewistown Narrows -- Kishicoquillas Valley -- Logan -- Jack's Narrows -- Huntingdon -- The Standing Stone -- Bedford -- Morrison's Cove -- The Sinking Spring -- Brainerd, the Missionary -- Tyrone -- Bellefonte -- Altoona -- Hollidaysburg -- The Portage Railroad -- Blair's Gap -- The Horse Shoe -- Kittanning Point -- Thomas Blair and Michael Maguire -- Loretto -- Prince Gallitzin --