THE

HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY

FROM ITS DISCOVERY BY COLUMBUS TO THE CELEBRATION
OF THE CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY OF ITS
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE:

EMBRACING

AN ACCOUNT OF ITS DISCOVERY; NARRATIVES OF THE STRUGGLES
OF ITS EARLY SETTLERS; SKETCHES OF ITS HEROES; THE
HISTORY OF THE WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE, AND THE

WAR FOR NATIONALITY; ITS INDUSTRIAL SUC-
CESSES, AND A RECORD OF ITS WHOLE
PROGRESS AS A NATION.

BY

ABBY SAGE RICHARDSON.

BEAUTIFULLY AND PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED BY

ENGRAVINGS FROM ORIGINAL DESIGNS BY GRANVILLE PERKINS,
C. G. BUSH, AND FELIX O. C. DARLEY, AND PORTRAITS
OF DISTINGUISHED DISCOVERERS, STATES-

PUBLISHED BY H. O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY.
NEW YORK: HURD AND HOUGHTON.

Cambridge: The Riverside Press.

1875.