VINELAND AND THE VIKINGS 9 FROBISHER AND THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE 26 CHAMPLAIN AND THE IROQUOIS 34 SIR WILLIAM PHIPS AND THE SILVER-SHIP 53 THE STORY OF THE REGICIDES 69 HOW THE CHARTER WAS SAVED 80 HOW FRANKLIN CAME TO PHILADELPHIA 90 THE PERILS OF THE WILDERNESS 98 SOME ADVENTURES OF MAJOR PUTNAM 111 A GALLANT DEFENCE 128 DANIEL BOONE, THE PIONEER OF KENTUCKY 138 PAUL'S REVERE'S RIDE 157 THE GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS 172 THE BRITISH AT NEW YORK 180 A QUAKERESS PATRIOT 189 THE SIEGE OF FORT SCHUYLER 195 ON THE TRACK OF A TRAITOR 211 MARION, THE SWAMP-FOX 223 THE FATE OF THE PHILADELPHIA 237 THE VICTIM OF A TRAITOR 249 HOW THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH WAS INVENTED 259 THE MONITOR AND THE MERRIMAC 275 STEALING A LOCOMOTIVE 285 AN ESCAPE FROM LIBBY PRISON 298 THE SINKING OF THE ALBEMARLE 314 ALASKA, A TREASURE HOUSE OF GOLD, FURS, AND FISHES 327 HOW HAWAII LOST ITS QUEEN AND ENTERED THE UNITED STATES 338 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. AMERICAN. VOLUME I. WASHINGTON CROSSING THE DELAWARE. _Frontispiece._ VIKING SHIPS AT SEA. 11 LAKE CHAMPLAIN AND ITS SURROUNDINGS. 41 POND ISLAND, MOUTH OF THE KENNEBEC. 54 THE CAVE OF THE REGICIDES. 76 THE CHARTER OAK, HARTFORD. 85 PRINTING-PRESS AT WHICH FRANKLIN WORKED WHEN A BOY. 90 WASHINGTON'S HOME AT MT. VERNON. 98 SHORE OF LAKE GEORGE. 118 INDIAN ATTACK AND GALLANT DEFENCE. 128 THE OLD NORTH CHURCH, BOSTON. 158 THE SPIRIT OF '76. 166 ETHAN ALLEN'S ENTRANCE, TICONDEROGA. 172 THE OLD STATE HOUSE, PHILADELPHIA. 191 THE BENEDICT ARNOLD MANSION. 220 THE MONITOR AND THE MERRIMAC. 280 LIBBY PRISON, RICHMOND. 298 SINKING OF THE ALBEMARLE. 319 MUIR GLACIER IN ALASKA. 328 A NATIVE GRASS HUT, HAWAII. 340 VINELAND AND THE VIKINGS.