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Author Jones, Thomas C., compilor.

Title Shaping the spirit of America; articles from Harper's and Century magazines recalling events and times that helped determine the present national image of the United States of America / Compiled by Thomas C. Jones. Color reproductions of paintings by Frederic Remington and Winslow Homer.

Publication Info. Chicago : J.G. Ferguson Pub. Co., [1964]

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  973 JONES    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Basement Materials  973.082 Q    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  973.08 J72    Check Shelf
Description 317 pages : illustrations (part. color) facsimile, maps (1 folded) portraits ; 27 cm
Contents Social life in the colonies / Edward Eggleston -- The father of American libraries / Bunford Samuel -- The birth of the American army / Horace Kephart -- The end of foreign dominion in Louisiana -- Laurels of the American tar in 1812 / Edgar S. Maclay -- General Sam Houston / Alexander Hynds -- Life in California before the gold discovery / John Bidwell -- The first emigrant train to California / John Bidwell -- Pioneer days in San Francisco / John Williamson Palmer -- Horses of the plains / written and illustrated by Frederic Remington -- The winter lakes, a poem / William Wilfred Campbell -- How Lincoln was nominated / Frank B. Carpenter -- A reception by President Lincoln / C. Van Santvoord -- To-day, a poem / Milicent Washburn Shinn -- The West Point of the Confederacy / John S. Wise -- The story of the assassination of President Lincoln and the pursuit of the assassins / John G. Nicolay and John Hay -- Pursuit and death of John Wilkes Booth / Major M.B. Ruggles -- Stray leaves from a whaleman's log / James Temple Brown -- Ranch life in the far West / Theodore Roosevelt -- Mark Twain / W.D. Howells -- Frontier types / Theodore Roosevelt -- Besieged by the Utes, the Massacre of 1879 / E.V. Sumner -- On a blank leaf in "The marble faun", a poem / Elia W. Peattie -- The oldest club in America / Robert Adams, Jr. -- The American game of foot-ball / Alexander Johnston -- The strange days that came to Jimmie Friday / Frederic Remington -- The song of Pan, a poem / Archibald Lampman -- Picturesque New York / M.G. Van Rensselaer -- Game-fishes of the Florida reef / C.F. Holder -- Illusions, a poem / Robert Underwood Johnson -- Black water and shallows / Frederic Remington.
Subject United States -- History.
United States -- Social life and customs.
Added Title Harper's.
Century illustrated monthly magazine.
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