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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 246 0 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 22 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 22 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 14 0 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 12 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 12 0 Browse Search
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States 12 0 Browse Search
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1 12 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 10 0 Browse Search
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana 10 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
breaking under the prows of American ships. T. J. Jacobs writes of the cruise of the clipper ship Margaret Oakley in Scenes, incidents, and adventures in the Pacific ocean (1844); and the United States government took a hand in maritime exploration by sending Captain Charles Wilkes with six ships and a large company of scientificsiderations led to talk of a railway to California. George Wilkes published in 1845 a volume now rare, Project of a national railroad from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean, for the purpose of obtaining a short route to Oregon. In 1848, Asa Whitney made addresses, memorials, and petitions for a transcontinental railway, and he gas by the government: Reports of explorations and surveys to ascertain the most practicable and Economical route for a railroad from the Misissippi River to the Pacific ocean (1855 to 1859). The explorers wrote with grace and facility, as a rule, and these reports form an indispensable library of information on the Far West of the f
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
avery in the United States, 344 Progress of the United States, 438 Project for a railroad to the Pacific, 146 Projection for regulating the value of Gold and silver Coins, a, 426 Project of a national railroad from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean, 146 Prometheus, 461 Prometheus bound, 465 Promised land, 420 Promises of political economy, the, 442 Property and contract, 442 Proportional representation, 361 Proposals for traffic and Commerce, 427 Proposals relating to the ers, W. L., 176 Saunterings, 123 Say, J. B., 431 Sayers, Joseph, 344 Scarecrow, the, 277 Scar-faced Charley, 160 Scarlet letter, the, 291, 582 Scenes and adventures in army life, 143 Scenes, incidents, and adventures in the Pacific ocean, 135 Schaff, Philip, 206, 207, 587 Schafmeyer, A., 582 Schelling, 227, 228, 245 Scheme . . . to encourage raising of Hemp, 426 Schiller, 460 Schley, Winfield S., 169 Schlozer, 577 Schluter, Herman, 600 Schnauffer, K. H