Historical Tales Volume II, American II by Charles Morris

Image of the Sunken Road--Bloody Lane--Antietam Naitonal Battlefield, Sharpsburg, Maryland, USA, public domain image

Summary Volume II of a series containing anecdotes and stories, some well-known, others less so, of particular countries. This second volume supplements the first with additional stories of the discovery, colonization, founding, and early years of the United States of America, describing history for children and young adults in an exciting and novel manner.
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Total running time:  8 hours, 23 minutes

Captain John Smith landing in Jamestown, public domain image

01 – Ponce de Leon and the Fountain of Youth

02 – De Soto and the Father of the Waters

03 – The Lost Colony of Roanoke

04 – The Thrilling Adventures of Captain John

05 – The Indian Massacre in Virginia

06 – The Great Rebellion in the Old Dominion

Painting by Theodore Gudin titled La Salle's Expedition to Louisiana in 1684. The ship on the left is La Belle, in the middle is Le Joly, and L'Aimable, which has run aground, is to the right.

07 – La Salle the Explorer of the Mississippi

08 – The French of Louisiana and the Natchez Indians

09 – The Knights of the Golden Horseshoe

10 – How Oglethorpe Saved Georgia from Spain

11 – A Boy’s Working Holiday in the Wildwood

12 – Patrick Henry, the Herald of the Revolution

Patrick Henry by George Bagby Matthew, public domain image

13 – Governor Tryon and the Carolina Regulators

14 – Lord Dunmore and the Gunpowder

15 – The Fatal Expedition of Colonel Rogers

16 – How Colonel Clark Won the Northwest

17 – King’s Mountain and the Patriots of Tennessee

18 – General Greene’s Famous Retreat

First Cotton Gin, image from Harpers Weekly, published in 1869 depicting an event that happened some 70 years earlier, public domain image

19 – Eli Whitney, the Inventor of the Cotton Gin

20 – How Old Hickory Fought the Creeks

21 – The Pirates of Barataria Bay

22 – The Heroes of the Alamo

The Alamo,This is a drawing of the Alamo Mission in San Antonio, first printed in 1854 in Gleason's Pictorial Drwing Room Companion, then reprinted in 2005 in Frank Thompson's The Alamo p. 106, public domain image

23 – How Houston Won Freedom for

24 – Captain Robert E. Lee and the Lava-Beds

25 – A Christmas Day on the Plantation

26 – Captain Gordon and the Raccoon Roughs

27 – Stuart’s Famous Chambersburg

28 – Forrest’s Chase of the Raiders

29 – Exploits of a Blockade-Runner

Siege of Vicksburg by Kurz and Allison, art publishers, Chicago, public domain image

30 – Fontain, the Scout, and the Besiegers of Vicksburg

31 – Gordon and the Bayonet Chart at Antietam

32 – The Last Triumph of Stonewall Jackson

33 – John Morgan’s Famous Raid

34 – Home-Coming of General Lee and His Veterans

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