Stories of American Life and Adventure

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Stories of American Life and Adventure, by Edward Eggleston 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 w w w . g u t e n b e r g . n e t Title: Stories of American Life and Adventure Author: Edward Eggleston Release Date: April 9, 2005 [eBook #15597] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK STORIES OF AMERICAN LIFE AND ADVENTURE*** E-text prepared by Mark C. Orton and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team Grand Canyon. Grand Canyon. STORIES OF AMERICAN LIFE AND ADVENTURE B y EDWARD EGGLESTON Author of "Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans," "A First Book in American History," and "A History of the United States and its People for the Use of Schools" Decoration American Book Company New York : Cincinnati : Chicago 1895 and 1923 PREFACE. This book is intended to serve three main purposes. One of these is to make school reading pleasant by supplying matter simple and direct in style, and sufficiently interesting and exciting to hold the reader's attention in a state of constant wakefulness; that is, to keep the mind in the condition in which instruction can be received with the greatest advantage.