GREAT EPOCHS

IN AMERICAN
HISTORY

DESCRIBED BY FAMOUS WRITERS

FROM COLUMBUS TO ROOSEVELT

Edited, with Introductions and Explanatory Notes

By FRANCIS W. HALSEY

Associate Editor of "The World's Famous Orations"; Asso-
ciate Editor of "The Best of the World's Classics";
author of "The Old New York Frontier," etc.

PATRONS' EDITION. IN TEN VOLUMES

ILLUSTRATED

Vol. X

OUR OWN RECENT TIMES

1877-1911

FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
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