Excerpt from Pioneer History Stories: For Third and Fourth Grades, First Series The history found in the pioneer stories constitutes the first stages of an unbroken series of history studies, begin ning in the latter part of the third grade and ending in the eighth grade. Beginning with the best early historical and biographical narratives of the home state, we advance to the neighboring parts of the country, to the south, east and west, until the main lines of pioneer life and the leading characters of pioneer history in the United States have been treated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.