This text was prepared by Nate Ripperton, using as copytext, A First Book in American History, by Edward Eggleston, and published by American Book Company, New York, 1889.

Since this book was first published before 1923, it is in the public domain in the United States. By U.S. law, it entered the public domain 75 years after its first publication.

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