Download or read book True Stories of the American Fathers, for the Girls and Boys All Over the Land (Classic Reprint) written by Rebecca M'Conkey and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from True Stories of the American Fathers, for the Girls and Boys All Over the Land If: Authoress of the accompanying little volume thinks no apology necessary for presenting to our young people an old story. Being a story of the immortals, it will bear to be retold all down the ages. She remem bers how her own childish imagination was stirred with its wonders and glories; how she found the old Greeksyalors wand heroisms, the statuesque Roman virtues and patriotisms, and the romantic exploits of the Coeurs de Lions of the Crusades, all paralleled in this story of the early heroes of our own land. Then, too, its wonders and its glories were wrought after a loftier inspiration, and its hero isms were tuned to a higher key. The ma chinery of the story disclosed also the presence and the working of the living and the true. 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.