My Native Land - The United States: its Wonders, its Beauties, and its People; - with Descriptive Notes, Character Sketches, Folk Lore, Traditions, - Legends and History, for the Amusement of the Old and the - Instruction of the Young

The Project Gutenberg EBook of My Native Land, by James Cox This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: My Native Land The United States: its Wonders, its Beauties, and its People; with Descriptive Notes, Character Sketches, Folk Lore, Traditions, Legends and History, for the Amusement of the Old and the Instruction of the Young Author: James Cox Release Date: January 28, 2004 [EBook #10857] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MY NATIVE LAND *** Produced by Charles Aldarondo, Keren Vergon, Julie Barkley and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. MY NATIVE LAND. The United States: its Wonders, its Beauties, and its People; with Descriptive Notes, Character Sketches, Folk Lore, Traditions, Legends and History, for the Amusement of the Old and the Instruction of the Young. BY JAMES COX, Author of "Our Own Country," "Missouri at the World's Fair," "Old and New St. Louis," "An Arkansas Eden," "Oklahoma Revisited," Etc. "Breathes there a man with soul so dead Who never to himself has said, This is my own,my native land." PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED. 1903. Statue to Minute Man CONTENTS CHAPTER I. OUR NATION'S BIRTH.