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The Western World
William Henry Giles Kingston
Mountains, giant rivers, endless lakes, and the peoples of the wilds: William Kingston surveys North America for the general reader, sketching its physical grandeur and its inhabitants region by region. A sweeping nineteenth-century portrait of a continent still wild in the imagination. Cross the New World from its peaks to its plains and rivers.
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384 chapters
- 1W.H.G. Kingston "The Western World"
- 2Preface.
- 3Part 1—Chapter I.
- 4North America. Introductory.—Physical Features of North America.
- 5Northern Region.
- 6Mountains.
- 7Great Rivers.
- 8Lakes.
- 9Aboriginal Inhabitants—The Red Men of the Wilds.
- 10Indian Wigwams.
- 11Appearance of the Indians.
- 12Wood Indians.
- 13The Prairie Indians.
- 14Religious Belief.
- 15American Antiquities.
- 16Part 1—Chapter II.
- 17North America considered as divided into Four Zones, with the various Objects of Interest found in each.
- 18The First Zone.
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