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Title: With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1

Author: Various

Editor: Charles Morris
Oliver H. G. Leigh

Release Date: April 7, 2010 [EBook #31908]

Language: English

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_SPECIAL EDITION_

WITH THE WORLD'S
GREAT TRAVELLERS

EDITED BY CHARLES MORRIS
AND OLIVER H. G. LEIGH

Vol. I

CHICAGO
UNION BOOK COMPANY
1901

COPYRIGHT 1896 AND 1897
BY
J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY

COPYRIGHT 1901
E. R. DUMONT

[Illustration: THE PRODIGAL'S RETURN
PAINTING BY SPADA]

CONTENTS.

SUBJECT. AUTHOR. PAGE

New Dependencies of the United States OLIVER H. G. LEIGH 9
Winter and Summer in New England HARRIET MARTINEAU 22
Niagara Falls and the Thousand Islands CHARLES MORRIS 31
From New York to Washington in 1866 HENRY LATHAM 39
The Natural Bridge and Tunnel of EDWARD A. POLLARD 49
Virginia
Plantation Life in War Times WILLIAM HOWARD RUSSELL 62
Among Florida Alligators S. C. CLARKE 74
In the Mammoth Cave THERESE YELVERTON 83
Down the Ohio and Mississippi THOMAS L. NICHOLS 94
From New Orleans to Red River FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED 104
Winter on the Prairies G. W. FEATHERSTONHAUGH 114
A Hunter's Christmas Dinner J. S. CAMPION 124
A Colorado "Round-Up" ALFRED TERRY BACON 133
Among the Cow-boys LOUIS C. BRADFORD 141
Hunting the Buffalo WASHINGTON IRVING 147
In the Country of the Sioux MERIWETHER LEWIS 157
The Great Falls of the Missouri WILLIAM CLARKE 168
Hunting Scenes in Canadian Woods