This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1917 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXXII CONCEPTION OF NATIONALITY OF UNITED STATES GREATLY ENLARGED--IMPORTANCE OF ABORIGINAL AMERICA--VARIOUS LECTURES AND ADDRESSES--PUBLICATION OF VOLUME ON CRITICAL PERIOD--PERPLEXITIES OVER HIS GREAT TASK--RELIEVED BY HIS PUBLISHERS I887-1888 F1ske returned from his trip to the Pacific Coast with a greatly enlarged conception of the United States as a nation, and its place in the international world. Hitherto his personal knowledge of its physical features and of its people had been confined to the section of country east of the Mississippi River. By this trip he was brought to a vivid realization that not one half of its territory or of its natural resources, and but little of its scenic beauty, had been revealed to him. The development in his own day of a high degree...