Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children (1922)
Sylvester, Charles Herbert · Chicago : Bellows-Reeve · leaf 44
thirteen of his companions reachedEngland on the twenty-sixth of March. There theywere tried for piracy in the South Seas, at the insti-gation of the Spanish ambassador, but were notconvicted. On the most serious charge they werereleased on the plea of self-defense, as it wasclaimed that the… … DAVID CROCKETT ^ NIQUE among the characters inAmerican history and one of the mostinteresting men of pioneer days wasDavid Crockett, who was born on the17th of August, 1786, in the back-woods district of what has since be-come the State of Tennessee. Hisfather, who was of Irish parentage, during…
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