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America's Story
For America's Children


By MARA L. PRATT.


A series of history readers which present the personal and picturesque elements of the story in a way as attractive to young readers as romance, and which will supplement the regular instruction in history in an effective manner.

Every statement of fact is historically accurate and the illustrations are correct even to the smallest details. Unusual care has been taken in these matters. These books are effectively illustrated in black and white and in color; are bound in attractive and artistic cloth covers; uniform in size, 6¼×7¾; printed on extra heavy paper, in large type and contain about 160 pages each.

Book I. The Beginners' Book. 35 cents.
A delightful story book, developing centers of interest through picturesque and personal incidents.
Book II. Exploration and Discovery. 40 cents.
The great explorers and discoverers from Lief Ericson to Henry Hudson.
Book III. The Earlier Colonies. 40 cents.
An accurate and fascinating account of the first settlements and the 13 colonies.
Book IV. The Later Colonial Period. 40 cents.
Settlements in the Mississippi Valley, The French and Indian Wars, etc.
Book V. The Revolution and the Republic. 40 cents.
The causes that led to it, the men who guided events, and subsequent civil history.

Descriptive circular free on request


D. C. HEATH & CO., Publishers, Boston, New York, Chicago.