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Our Country In Story

CONTENTS I. A Pathway across the Atlantic 1. A Long-Ago Voyage 9 2. The Northmen on American Shores 13 3. The Need of a New Waterway to the Far East. 19 4. Columbus Proposes a Westward Voyage to the Far East 24 5. Columbus Sails on a Westward Voyage 33 6. Columbus Finds Strange Coasts 38 7. Columbus Returns to Spain 42 8. Three More Westward Voyages 47 II. Balboa and Magellan Prove that Columbus Had Discovered A New Continent 1. The Discovery of the Pacific 52 2. The First Voyage around the World 60 III. The Story of a Great River 1. A Visitor from Quebec at St. Ignace 73 2. On the Way to the Mississippi 78 3. Down the Mississippi to the Arkansas 86 4. Homeward Bound. The Death of Father Marquette 94 5. The Mississippi Explored from Source to Mouth. 98 IV. The Great Southwest 1. The Franciscan Padres in the South 102 2. The Jesuit Padres in Lower California 106 3. The Franciscan Padres in Upper California 110 4. The California Mission System 123 V. On the Banks of the Potomac 1. The Old Dominion 136 2. The Land of the Sanctuary 140 3. Mount Vernon 146 4. Two Great Sons of Maryland 162 5. Our Capital City 174 VI. Our National Banner 1. The Origin of Our Flag 183 2. The Meaning of Ou

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