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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This w...

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from Virginia of Elk Creek ValleyThen he gathered up the reins and drove his horses through the creek, and on toward the Gap and the open prairie.Don, cried the girl, suddenly clutching his arm with one hand and pointing with the other, there's some Wild bergamot just opening! I never knew it to be as early as this! And see! There's a sun ¿ower On the edge Of the wheat field! There'll be thousands Of them soon! They're like Priscilla!A...

Excerpt from The Girl From the Big Horn CountryA september afternoon in the Big Horn moun tains! The air crystal clear, the sky cloudless, the outlines of the hills distinct! Elk Creek Valley lay golden in the sunshine, Silent save for the incessant hum of locust and cricket, the hurrying of the creek waters, and the occasional bellowing of steers on the range beyond the foot-hills deserted except for the distant cattle, a coyote stealing acro...

Excerpt from The Beginnings of the American Revolution, Vol. 1: Based on Contemporary Letters, Diaries and Other DocumentsN studying the beginnings of the American Revolu tion, the remark made by John Adams that there was a revolution in men's minds that preceded the years of battle, and that the result of the war but set its seal on a severance of interests already accomplished is more and more clearly pressed home. The successive incidents t...

Excerpt from The Beginnings of the American Revolution, Vol. 2: Based on Contemporary Letters, Diaries and Other DocumentsAch week the line became more marked between the Tories and those whose sympathies lay with the country in its struggles, which now tended more and more openly and inevitably toward independence. The in fluence of the Committee of Correspondence in giving form to the Solemn League and Covenant drew attention to its power, a...

Excerpt from The Beginnings of the American Revolution, Vol. 3: Based on Contemporary Letters Diaries and Other DocumentsHE pause at Lexington was invaluable to Concord, giving its people just so much more time in which to remove and conceal the stores entrusted to their keeping. Many thousands were saved to the Colony, and (the British) were in a great manner frustrated in their design.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of ...

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Originally published in 1960, this beautiful novel, by one of America's best loved writers, is an absorbing family chronicle of the early twentieth century. Set half in England and half in her native state of Maine, the narrative allows the author to make splendid use of this dual setting to depict with affection the two areas she loved best in the world. John Tillyard, a Wesleyan parson, brings his wife and three children from England when he...

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