Excerpt from Barnes's School History of the United States: Being a Revision of a Brief History of the United States The Indians - A few hundred years ago there were no white men in our country. Nearly all the land was with out inhabitants, but scattered about here and there were villages or groups Of rude-dwellings occupied by Indians. In what is now the main part of the United States there were at that time fewer people than there are to-day in the Single city of St. Louis. Indians had lived in America for no one knows ...
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Excerpt from Barnes's School History of the United States: Being a Revision of a Brief History of the United States The Indians - A few hundred years ago there were no white men in our country. Nearly all the land was with out inhabitants, but scattered about here and there were villages or groups Of rude-dwellings occupied by Indians. In what is now the main part of the United States there were at that time fewer people than there are to-day in the Single city of St. Louis. Indians had lived in America for no one knows how long - for many centuries at least. They were probably descended from the same people as the Chinese and other natives of eastern Asia; but where that people lived, and when, are alike unknown. It may be that America was first settled in that remote age when the Arctic regions were warmer than now, and when, as geology teaches, this continent was connected by land both with Asia and with Europe. At a later period, small parties may have crossed Bering Strait, or vessels may have been driven by winds and currents across the Pacific Ocean, their crews being thankful to escape a watery grave by settling a new country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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