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Title: A history of the United States for Catholic schools
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Franciscan Sisters of the Perpetual Adoration (La Crosse, Wis.)
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Publisher: New York, Scott, Foresman and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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d his General Sherman in Cen-tral Park, New York, places him in the first rank of Americansculptors. The most important sculptors of animal life arethe late Edward Kemys, E. C. Potter, and A. C. Proctor. Thelatter has also portrayed the American Indian, but the mostpowerful sculptor of the Indian is Cyrus E. Dallin. The twomost characteristically American of the younger artists, bothfrom the West, are Solon H. Borglum, whose subjects are theIndian, the cowboy, and the broncho, and George Barnard.New York City is the center of American sculpture. 739. American Literature. After the Revolution, Americanliterature was still in its infancy. The period beginning withJacksons administration not only ushered in a new era in gov-ernment, industry, and national spirit, but also the GoldenAge in American literature. The stirring events which fol-lowed the framing of the Constitution, as well as the rapidprogress of the country, naturally found expressions in thesongs and stories of our writers.
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HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER A centurys progress 565 740. American Authors. Washington Irving (1783-1859),New York, the Father of American Literature, was thefirst author to attract attention abroad. He is noted for hisfamous Knickerbocker History of New York, the interestingstories of the Sketch Book, and his Life of Christopher Colum-bus. Irving and James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851), NewYork, were the first distinguished authors to choose Americansubjects for their writings. The latter, our first novelist, wroteThe Spy and many other novels, some of which are based uponthe history of our country. William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), Massachusetts, thePoet of Nature, sometimes called the American Wordsworth(Englands poet of Nature), came into fame by his well-knownI)oem Thanatopsis, written when he was only nineteen. Healso wrote many other poems, among which To a Waterfowlis especially worthy of note. He is associated wi

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