Modern Prose And Poetry; For Secondary Schools: Edited With Notes, Study Helps, And Reading Lists
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Modern Prose And Poetry; For Secondary Schools: Edited With Notes, Study Helps, And Reading Lists
American literature
The Course of American History
(in _Mere Literature_) Woodrow Wilson
The Life of George Washington " "
The Winning of the West Theodore Roosevelt
Stories of the Great West " "
Hero Tales from American History Roosevelt and Lodge
The Great Salt Lake Trail Inman and Cody
The Old Santa Fé Trail H. Inman
Rocky Mountain Exploration Reuben G. Thwaites
Daniel Boone " " "
How George Rogers Clark Won the Northwest " " "
Daniel Boone and the Wilderness Road H.A. Bruce
The Crossing Winston Churchill
The Conquest of Arid America W.E. Smythe
The Last American Frontier F.L. Paxon
Northwestern Fights and Fighters Cyrus Townsend Brady
Western Frontier Stories The Century Company
The Story of Tonty Mary Hartwell Catherwood
Heroes of the Middle West " " "
Pony Tracks Frederic Remington
The Different West A.E. Bostwick
The Expedition of Lewis and Clark J.K. Hosmer
The Trail of Lewis and Clark O.D. Wheeler
The Discovery of the Old Northwest James Baldwin
Boots and Saddles Elizabeth Custer
La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West Francis Parkman
The Oregon Trail " "
Samuel Houston Henry Bruce
The Story of the Railroad Cy Warman
The Pioneers Walt Whitman
The Story of the Cowboy Emerson Hough
Woodrow Wilson W.B. Hale
Recollections of Thirteen Presidents John S. Wise
Presidential Problems Grover Cleveland
The Story of the White House Esther Singleton
WHAT I KNOW ABOUT GARDENING
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER
(From _My Summer in a Garden_)
NINTH WEEK
I am more and more impressed with the moral qualities of vegetables, and
contemplate forming a science which shall rank with comparative anatomy
and comparative philology,--the science of comparative vegetable
morality. We live in an age of protoplasm. And, if life-matter is
essentially the same in all forms of life, I purpose to begin early, and
ascertain the nature of the plants for which I am responsible. I will
not associate with any vegetable which is disreputable, or has not some
quality that can contribute to my moral growth. I do not care to be seen
much with the squashes or the dead-beets....
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