Studies in Crap Discovers What Your Great Great Grandfather Knew About American History: “The Story of the United States”
Each
Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and
bewildering crap culled from area basements, thrift stores, estate
sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power.
The
Story of the United States
Author:
Elbridge
S. Brooks
Publisher:
Lothrop
Publishing Company, Boston
Date:
1891
Discovered
at: Johnson
County Library book sale
The
Cover Promises: George
Washington lotto scratch-off!
Representative
Quotes:
“There
appeared, also, by lakeside, river and seashore a naked, low-browed,
uncouth race of savages, chipping the flint-stones of the Trenton
gravel banks into knives and spear-heads and disputing with the great
birds and beasts whose trails and tracks they crossed for the very
caves and holes in which they lived. These were the first Americans.”
(page 13)
“The
French settlement of Canada does not properly fall within our plan of
this story any more than does the Spanish settlement of Mexico, for
neither Canada nor Mexico have yet become parts of the United
States.” (page 54)
