Howard Payson kindle The Boy Scouts at the Panama-Pacific Exposition. Illustrated by Charles L. Wrenn

About the Book Sea stories, or nautical fiction, naval fiction, sea fiction, naval adventure fiction or maritime fiction, is a genre that has as its setting sea or seashore, focusing on the human relationship to the sea. The settings range from merchant ships, liners, naval ships, fishing vessels, and life boats, to sea ports and fishing villages. While the sea stories tradition is mainly British and North American in origins, there are also significant literatures from Japan, France, Scandinavia, and other European countries. Also in this Book Oceania and Australasia is a region that mostly comprises of the continent of Australia. It also includes Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia. It is situated in the south east of the Asia Pacific region and is the second smallest continental grouping and the least populated continent. The arrival of European settlers significantly changed the culture in the region. And in this Book Major Indigenous tribes of the Great Lakes region of the Midwest included: the Hurons, Ottawa, Chippewas or Ojibwas, Potawatomis, Winnebago (Ho-chunk), Menominees, Sacs, Neutrals, Fox, and the Miami. Hurons and Chippewas were most numerous. Some tribes, such as Sac, Fox, and Miami, both hunted and farmed. They depended on the open prairies where they engaged in communal hunts for buffalo (bison). Plains tribes occasionally engaged in agriculture, e.g. tobacco and corn. These included: the Blackfoot, Arapaho, Assiniboine, Cheyenne, Comanche, Crow, Gros Ventre, Kiowa, Lakota, Lipan, Plains Apache (or Kiowa Apache), Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwe, Sarsi, Shoshone, Stoney, and Tonkawa. Yankee settlers from New England began to arrive in Ohio prior to 1800, and then spread throughout the northern half of the Midwest. Most began as farmers, but many later moved to urban areas as entrepreneurs and professionals. Since its beginnings in the 1830s, and its development as a livestock and grain transport hub, Chicago grew to dominate the Midwestern metropolis landscape, and still does. About us Leopold Classic Library has the goal of making available to readers the classic books that have been out of print for decades. While these books may have occasional imperfections, we consider that only hand checking of every page ensures readable content without poor picture quality, blurred or missing text etc. That's why we: republish only hand checked books; that are high quality; enabling readers to see classic books in original formats; that are unlikely to have missing or blurred pages. You can search "Leopold Classic Library" in categories of your interest to find other books in our extensive collection. Happy reading!