CHAPTER XXII. PAGES 339-352.

THE SETTLEMENT OF THE PACIFIC COAST.

TOPICS FOR COLLATERAL READING.--For special topics in connection with the settlement of the Pacific coast consult Barrows's _Oregon_ and Royce's _California_ (both volumes in the American Commonwealth's Series).

REFERENCES FOR READING.--Irving's _Astoria_ and Dana's _Two Years before the Mast_ were written many years ago, but present vivid pen-pictures of the early days on the Pacific coast.

CHAPTERS XXIII-XXV. PAGES 353-405.

THE WAR FOR THE UNION.

TOPICS FOR COLLATERAL READING.--The literature of the Civil War is so voluminous that the utmost care must be used in the selection of even the best books for collateral reading.

For school purposes two of the best briefer books for supplementary use are Champlin's _Young Folks' History of the War for the Union_ and Dodge's _Bird's-Eye View of the Civil War_. Consult also _Nichol's Story of the Great March_ (Sherman); Swinton's _Twelve Decisive Battles of the War_; Drake's _Battle of Gettysburg_; Morse's _Abraham Lincoln_, 2 vols. (American Statesmen Series).

REFERENCES FOR READING.--Abbot's _Battlefields of '61_; Abbot's _Blue Jackets of '61_; Soley's _Sailor Boys of '61_; Brooks's _True Story of Abraham Lincoln_; Brooks's _True Story of General Grant_; Brooks's _Story of the American Soldier_; Coffin's _Days and Nights on the Battlefield_; Coffin's _Drumbeat of the Nation_; Coffin's _Redeeming the Republic_; Coffin's _Marching to Victory_; Coffin's _Freedom Triumphant_; Cooke's _Stonewall Jackson_; Cooke's _Robert E. Lee_.

OUTSIDE READINGS.--Blaisdell's _Stories of the Civil War_; Goss's _Jed, a Boy's Adventures in the Army_; Goss's _Tom Clifton_; Keiffer's _Recollections of a Drummer Boy_; Barnes's _Midshipman Farragut_; Henty's _With Lee in Virginia_; Page's _Two Little Confederates_.

FOR READING AND RECITATION.--Read's _Sheridan's Ride_; Whittier's _Barbara Frietchie_; Howe's _Battle Hymn of the Republic_; Bryant's _Our Country's Call_; Bret Harte's _John Burns at Gettysburg_; Whitman's _O Captain! My Captain!_ (Death of Lincoln); Finch's _Blue and the Gray_; Miss Preston's _Gone Forward_ (Death of General Lee); Longfellow's _Cumberland_; Boker's _Black Regiment_; Byers's _Sherman's March to the Sea_; Bryant's _The Battlefield_; Wilson's _The Old Sergeant_; Bryant's _Abraham Lincoln_; Higginson's _Decoration_; Bryant's _Our Country's Call_; Stedman's _Sumter_; Bayard Taylor's _To the American People_, and _Scott and the Veteran_; Holmes's _Voyage of the Good Ship Union_; Stedman's _Wanted--a Man_; Whittier's _Battle Autumn of 1862_, and _Laus Deo_.