Contains:
PART I:
American Life Through Literature
A. THE GROWTH OF A NATION 23

UNIT I: SETTLING THE SEABOARD 24
Captain Smith Among the Indians John Smith 25
America's First Great Lady Donald Culross Peattie 28
A Tobacco Deal Mary Johnston 31
March 1621 Helen Grace Carlisle 40
Housewifery Edward Taylor 46
Early Life in Manhattan Washington Irving 47
Neighbors in Virginia William Byrd 52
An Escape from Alligators William Bartram 55

UNIT II: MOVING WESTWARD 61
A Test of Fortitude James Fenimore Cooper 62
Daniel Boone"s Last Look Westward Cale Young Rice 70
Crockett's Morning Hunt 72
The Saga of Pecos Bill Edward O'Reilly 73
Four Folk Songs 76
Sweet Betsy from Pike 78
The Little Old Sod Shanty on the Claim 79
The Old Chisholm Trail 81
Billy the Kid
The Leader of the People John Steinbeck 82
The Ideals of the Pioneer Frederick J. Turner 92

UNIT III: FROM MANY DISTANT COUNTRIES 97
Nancy Byrd Turner 98
George and Helen Papashvily 98
Immigrants
The First Day
O'Meara, the Mayflower—
and Mrs. MacLirr Don Marquis 103
Four Generations Ruth Suckow 112
Mr. K*aplan Cuts a Gordian Knot Leonard Q. Ross 120
Awroopdedoop Benjamin Appel 124
"Scum o' the Earth" Robert Haven Schauffier 130
A Nation of Nations Louis Adamic 132

UNIT IV: THE RISE OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY 139
How to Make Lightning Rods Benjamin Franklin 140
The Paper Mill in Devil's Dungeon Herman Melville 141
John Henry and the Machine in West Walter Blair 147
The Brute Virginia William Vaughn Moody 155
Tin Lizzie John Dos Passos 157
Reed of Virginia Charles Morrow Wilson 160
Wheels in His Head M. M. Musselman 166
Machines With and Without Freedom David E. Lilienthal 172
B. THE DEVELOPMENT OF AMERICAN IDEALS 179
UNIT IV: THE PRICE OF LIBERTY 180
"Sweet Land of Liberty"
Freedom Is a Habit Carl Sandburg 181
The Gray Champion Nathaniel Hawthorne 182
"Light and Truth"
FROM A Scheme for Education in a New Republic Thomas Jefferson 189
Henry Cogdal Edgar Lee Masters 191
"Rights and Duties" FROM First Inaugural Address Thomas Jefferson 192
Practical Politics Fiorello La Giiardia 194
The Poor Voter on Election Day John Greenleaf Whittier 200
Lone Wolf's Old Guard Hamlin Garland 200
"What Americans Have Fought For"
A Tooth for Paul Revere Stephen Vincent Benet 206
The Declaration of Independence 216
Second Inaugural Address Abraham Lincoln 219
Message Asking for Declaration of War Franklin Delano Roosevelt 221
The Future for Democracy Vannevar Bush 222
UNIT Vi: THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS 227
"Farm and City"
I Hear America Singing Walt Whitman 228
Life on the Farm Samuel Clemens 229
A Holiday with Father Clarence Day 234
Mowing Robert Frost 239
The Year of the Hot Winter James Stevens 240
The Riverman Stewart Edward White 244
America Was Schoolmasters Robert P. Tristram Coffin 251
Chicago Carl Sandburg 252
"Good Times"
CirCus at Dawn Thomas Wolfe 253
Fiddler Jones Edgar Lee Masters 257
At the Symphony Robert Nathan 257
"Life and Love"
Sixteen Maureen Daly, adapted for radio by Betty Keppler 258
I Can't Breathe Ring Lardner 264
Annabel Lee Edgar Allan Poe 270
Give All to Love Ralph Waldo Emerson 271
I Shall Not Care Sara Teasdale 272
"Personal Faith"
The Creation James Weldon Johnson 271
Three Spirituals
Oh, Lawd. How Long?
Joshua Fit de Battle ob Jericho
This Train
Evening and Morning Prayer John Mayo Goss
Jim Bludso. of the Prairie Belle John Hay
FROM Self-ReLIance Ralph Waldo Emerson
Credo Edwin Arlington Robinson

PART II
The Pageant of American Literature
C. MEN AND BOOKS 291
UNIT IV: BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
(representing The Colonial Period)
Introduction, 292; The Common-Sense Philosopher. 292; The Patriotic Penman.
302; The Scientist, 306; The Man of the World, 310
Dogood Papers. No. 1
Project of Arriving at Moral Perfection
Protection of Towns from Fire
Let Us Now Forgive and Forget
The Electrical Kite
First Aerial Voyage by Man
The Ephemera
Dialogue Between Franklin and the Gout
UNIT VIII: WASHINGTON IRVING
(representing The Early National Period)
Introduction. 322; Irving Contrasted with Franklin. 322; New >ork Amateur.
323". Irving and Europe. 329; Europe and America, 331: IrNinc's Rom.inticism,
343; Historian and Biographer, 351
The Golden Reign of Wouter Van Twiller
Christmas
The Devil and Tom Walker
The Camp of the Wild Horse

UNIT IX: HENRY DAVID THOREAU
(representing America's "Golden Day") 360
Introduction, 360; Craftsman and Woodsman, 360; Humorous Philosopher, 366; The Walden Idea, 371; Rebel, 377
Chasing a Fox
The Battle of the Ants
Miss Mary Emerson
I Attend a Party
I Chase a Pig
Why I Went to the Woods
My House by Walden Pond
FROM Civil Disobedience

UNIT X: WALT WHITMAN
(representing The Period of Conflict) 386
Introduction, 386; The Early Whitman, 386; The New Whitman, 389; Poet in
Wartime, 394; Postwar Themes, 401

Young Grimes
FROM To You
FROM By Blue Ontario's Shore
Beat! Beat! Drums
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed
FROM Passage to India
Joy, Shipmate, Joy!

UNIT Xi: SAMUEL CLEMENS
(representing The Period of New Outlooks) 410
Introduction, 410; Journalist, 411; Yarnspinner, 419; Fiction Writer, 426

The Boys' Ambition
Flush Times in Silverland
Bugs
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
Huck Visits the Grangerfords

UNIT XIi: STEPHEN VINCENT BENET
(representing The Twentieth Century) AAA
Introduction, 444; Rebel of the 1920's, 444; Interpreter of America's Past, 448; Realist, 462; Patriot, 473
Carol: New Style
Stonewall Jackson's Last Charge
The Devil and Daniel Webster
Famous
Listen to the People

D. CHANGING LITERARY PATTERNS

UNIT XI Ii: THE AMERICAN SHORT STOR ^
Introduction
The Purloined Letter Edgar Allan Poe
The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allan Poe
Dr. Heidegger's Experiment Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Luck of Roaring Camp Bret Harte
The Gift of the Magi O. Henry
A Myster>' of Heroism Stephen Crane
In Another Country Ernest Hemingway

UNIT XIV : LYRIC AMERICA
Introduction
The Wild Honeysuckle Philip Freneau
The Indian Burying Ground Philip Freneau
Thanatopsis William Calien Bryant
To a Waterfowl William Calien Bryant
Israfel Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven Edgar Allan Poe
My Lost Youth Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Arsenal at Springfield Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Trailing Arbutus John Greenleaf Whittier
Dear Lord and Father of Mankind John Greenleaf Whittier
The Chambered Nautilus Oliver Wendell Holmes
My Aunt Oliver Wendell Holmes
To the Dandelion James Russell Lowell
The Courtin' James Russell Lowell
The Snowstorm Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Rhodora Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ode Henry Timrod
Aspects of the Pines Paul Hamilton Hayne
The Conquered Banner Abram J. Ryan
The Marshes of Glynn Sidney Lanier
For You O Democracy Walt Whitman
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer Walt Whitman
I'll Tell You How the Sun Rose Emily Dickinson
The Snake Emily Dickinson
To a Wood Violet John Bannister Tahh
The Whippoorwil! John Bannister Tahh
General William Booth Enters into Heaven Wichel Lindsay
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy
Evening Robert Frost 585
Birches Robert Frost 586
Lucinda Matlock Edgar Lee Masters 587
Anne Rutledge Edgar Lee Masters 587
Miniver Cheevy Edwin Arlington Robinson 587
The Dark Hills Edwin Arlington Robinson 588
The Harbor Carl Sandburg 588
Jazz Fantasia Carl Sandburg 589
Any Human to Another Countee Cullen 589
Brave New World Archibald MacLeish 590
A Cut Flower Karl Shapiro 591
October 1 Karl Shapiro 591
UNIT XV: AMERICAN HUMOR 595
Introduction 595
Father Opens My Mail Clarence Day 598
Every Day Is Monday Ogden Nash 602
This Is Going to Hurt Just a Little Bit Ogden Nash 603
Love Song Dorothy Parker 604
The Waltz Dorothy Parker 604
University Days James Thurber 607
UNIT XVI: AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY 615
Introduction 615
Young Abe Lincoln Carl Sandburg 617
The Surrender at Appomattox Douglas Freeman 623
Country Schoolteacher Jesse Stuart 629
The Priceless Gift of Laughter Time Magazine 634
UNIT XVIi: DRAMA IN AMERICA 641
Introduction 641
He Eugene O'Neill 644
The Happy Journey to Trenton
and Camden
Enter the Hero
The Pharmacist's Mate
Thornton Wilder 655
Theresa Helburn 663
Budd Schidberg, adapted for
television from a newspaper
story by George Weller 612>
Glossary
Pronunciation ol Proper Names
Index of Literary Terms
Index of Types of Literature
General Index