...s Publication Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...utes past seven and twenty minutes before nine in the morning, between the Northern and the Lyons stations, through the windows of a car, and in a dri... ...a- bic The Bridge of Tears, and the next day they put in at Steamer Point, north-west of Aden harbour, to take in coal. This matter of fuelling steame... ...rare intervals; and was almost as familiar as a native with the cus- toms, history, and character of India and its people. But Phileas Fogg, who was n... ... gratitude. Aouda confirmed the Parsee guide’s narrative of her touch- ing history. She did, indeed, belong to the highest of the native races of Indi... ... between San Francisco and Ogden, and the Union Pacific, between Ogden and Omaha. Five main lines connect Omaha with New York. New York and San Franci... ...es no less than three thousand seven hundred and eighty-six miles. Between Omaha and the Pacific the railway crosses a territory which is still infest... ...arallels. President Lincoln himself fixed the end of the line at Omaha, in Nebraska. The work was at once com- menced, and pursued with true American ...

...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 7 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of A... ...itings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Seven is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...na, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and North Carolina, a number of persons, not less than one-tenth in number of t... ... enlarging the wa- ter communication between the Mississippi River and the north- eastern seaboard, which proposition, however, failed for the time. ... ...ed it to be within the limits of the township in Iowa opposite the town of Omaha, in Nebraska. Since then the 88 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ... ...e within the limits of the township in Iowa opposite the town of Omaha, in Nebraska. Since then the 88 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Seven c... ...MICHAEL HAHN. MY DEAR SIR:—I congratulate you on having fixed your name in history as the first free-state governor of Louisiana. Now, you are about t... ...of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and re- vere the justice and ... ...initely located for one hundred miles west- ward from the initial point at Omaha City, Nebraska, and a preliminary location of the Pacific Railroad of...

...altimore, and General Halleck as general- in-chief at Washington. General Milroy, as immediate commander, was put in arrest, and subsequently a court of inquiry examined chiefly with reference to disobedience of orders, and reported the evidence....

...The Pit The Pit The Pit The Pit The Pit A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story... ...f Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago By By By By By F F F F FRANK NO RANK NO RANK NO RANK NO RANK NOR... ...rd upon the sub- ject, “The bridge was turned!” The Cresslers lived on the North Side. The incident seemed to be closed with the abruptness of a slamm... ... The carriage rolled on through the darkened downtown streets, towards the North Side, where the Dearborns lived. They could hear the horses plashing ... ...ne welter of fertility. All over the United States, from the Dakotas, from Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, and Illi- nois, from all the wheat belt came steadi... ...o have definitely settled the question. But more especially Jadwin watched Nebraska, that State which is one single vast wheat field. How would Nebras... ... Chicago, but of every city in the Union, exploited him for “stories.” The history of his corner, how he had effected it, its chronology, its re- sult... ...on took his taxes, as if by right of birth. Somewhere, in a long-forgotten history of his brief school days, he had come across a phrase that he remem... ...t, from Minneapolis, Duluth, and Milwaukee. From the Southwest, St. Louis, Omaha, and Kansas City contributed to the volume. The Atlantic Seaboard, Ne...

Excerpt: The Pit: A Story of Chicago by Frank Norris.

...ic Classics Series Publication Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... and manners was perfect, Dr. Howard Littlefield proved it to them, out of history, economics, and the confessions of reformed radicals. Babbitt had a... ... its strangely eroded banks; of the orchard-dappled Tonawanda Hills to the North, and all the fat dairy land and big barns and com- fortable herds. As... ..., Oberlin Avenue & 3d St., N.E Zenith Omar Gribble, Esq., 376 North American Building, Zenith. Dear Mr. Gribble: Your letter of the twent... ... this burg that say I’m a roughneck and a never-wuzzer and my knowledge of history is not-yet. Oh, there’s a gang of woolly-whiskered book-lice that t... ...ttsburg and Birming- ham with their steel, Kansas City and Minneapolis and Omaha that open their bountiful gates on the bosom of the ocean-like wheatl... ...rew, M.A., D.D., LL.D. (The M.A. and the D.D. were from Elbert University, Nebraska, the LL.D. from Waterbury Col- lege, Oklahoma.) He was eloquent, e...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and beautifully office-buildings....

...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...o generations ago, a girl stood in relief against the corn- flower blue of Northern sky. She saw no Indians now; she saw flour-mills and the blinking ... ...hrough it before the three o’clock bell called her to the class in English history. She sighed, “That’s what I’ll do after college! I’ll get my hands ... ...on Long Is- land? Nobody has done anything with the ugly towns here in the Northwest except hold revivals and build libraries to contain the Elsie boo... ... that up in the library? Well then, suppose you do!” 9 Sinclair Lewis The history instructor was a retired minister. He was sarcastic today. He begge... ...reared three sons to be Christian gentlemen that one of them had become an Omaha bartender, one a professor of Greek, and one, Cyrus N. Bogart, a boy ... ...her Gopher Prairies. In winter, California is full of people from Iowa and Nebraska, Ohio and Oklahoma, who, having trav- eled thousands of miles from...

...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would...

... Across the Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...ed on my shoulders, and in the bag of my railway rug the whole of Bancroft’s History of the United States, in six fat volumes. It was as much as I cou... ...n crawled out of the T ransfer Station and across the wide Missouri river to Omaha, westward bound. It was a troubled uncomfortable evening in the car... ...; the lamps were lit; a party of wild young men, who got off next evening at North Platte, stood to- gether on the stern platform, singing “The Sweet ... ... their sale, and came repeatedly to sit by me and cheer me up. THE PLAINS OF NEBRASKA IT HAD THUNDERED on the Friday night, but the sun rose on Saturd... ...d. We were at sea – there is no other adequate expression – on the plains of Nebraska. I made my observatory on the top of a fruit-waggon, and sat by ... ...t it contained, as I passed through, one person in- completely civilised. At North Platte, where we supped that evening, one man asked another to pass... ...ry and warm and full of inland perfume. MEXICANS, AMERICANS, AND INDIANS THE HISTORY OF MONTEREY has yet to be written. Founded by Catholic missionari...

... CHAPTER I - ACROSS THE PLAIN........................3 CHAPTER II - THE OLD PACIFIC CAPITAL........38 CHAPTER III - FONTAINEBLEAU VILLAGE COMMUNITIES OF PAINTERS...............................52 CHAPTER IV - EPILOGUE TO ?AN INLAND VOYAGE?................................................................. 68 CHAPTER V - RANDOM MEMORIES.................79 CHAPTER VI - RANDOM M...

... INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES is a publication of the Penn sylvania State Univer... ...ersity. This Portable Document File is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...ederacies, the only examples which remain with any detail and preci sion in history, and certainly the only ones which the people at large had ever c... ... happiness of all the States in the Union, without preference or regard to a northern or southern, an eastern or western, position, their various poli... ...f others? Or have we found an gels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. Let us, then, with courage and confidence p... ...n. Local inter ests are not less fostered by it. Our fellow citizens of the North engaged in navigation find great encourage ment in being made the ... ...er this may be, though it has ever been my individual opinion that under the Nebraska Kansas act the appropriate period will be when the num ber of ... ...ke of earlier. Their lives ended in places called Belleau Wood, The Argonne, Omaha Beach, Salerno and halfway around the world on Guadalcanal, Tarawa,...

Excerpt: Inaugural addresses of the presidents of the United States.