# The North-Americans of yesterday

Author: Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel, 1853-1935

Genre: Category: History - American

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76978

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+North-Americans+of+yesterday+Dellenbaugh&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

When those rapacious enthusiasts, the Spaniards of the sixteenth century, had unfolded some of the mysteries of the great half-world that the resolution and daring of Columbus had opened to them, they found it everywhere already peopled, though often sparsely, by a race strange to the other half, with totally different ideas and customs, existing in various degrees of sylvan felicity, or in the budding promise of a civilisation. They also found imposing ruins that told of the long previous departure of some of the occupants of this land into the vaster unknown, and indeed evidences of still earlier hosts that had travelled the dim pathway through the outer darkness. These new lands were b...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-north-americans-of-yesterday-76978/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-north-americans-of-yesterday-76978/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-north-americans-of-yesterday-76978/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-north-americans-of-yesterday-76978/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-north-americans-of-yesterday-76978/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-north-americans-of-yesterday-76978/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-north-americans-of-yesterday-76978/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-north-americans-of-yesterday-76978/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-north-americans-of-yesterday-76978/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-north-americans-of-yesterday-76978/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-north-americans-of-yesterday-76978/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-north-americans-of-yesterday-76978/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-north-americans-of-yesterday-76978/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-north-americans-of-yesterday-76978/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-north-americans-of-yesterday-76978/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-north-americans-of-yesterday-76978/chapters/1/index.md)