Excerpt from The Story of Our Nation: From the Earliest Discoveries to the Present Time, Including a Complete Account of the Norsemen, The Mound-Builders, Voyages of Columbus and Other Explorers, Adventures and Discoveries, Hardships of Early Settlers, French and Indian Wars, Struggle for LibIt tells of the mysterious mound builders, whose origin, race, and history has so long been a puzzle to scientists of the daring cliff dwellers, whose inaccessible, cave-like homes were made beside the aeries of the majestic eagle, the national bird of our land, of Columbus, the resolute hero, who discovered a new world in the face of great obstacles, and opened the pathway of American civilization, of the red patriots, who died defending their homes from the relentless grasp of the invader.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.