. The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes . >vMasfei :. SOLDIERS MONUMENT AND TOMB OF O HARA, FRANKFORT, 162 THE CENTURY BOOK OF FAMOUS AMERICANS The morning after their arrival in Nashville they took an early trainon the Lebanon Branch road, running east from Nashville, and, as theymade the hours run through a green and fertile country of rolling landthat, so Bert declared, looked real New Englandy, Uncle Tom gavehis young- auditors brief glimpses of the remarkable man whose homesteadthey were approaching. A stirring life, from
. The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes . >vMasfei :. SOLDIERS MONUMENT AND TOMB OF O HARA, FRANKFORT, 162 THE CENTURY BOOK OF FAMOUS AMERICANS The morning after their arrival in Nashville they took an early trainon the Lebanon Branch road, running east from Nashville, and, as theymade the hours run through a green and fertile country of rolling landthat, so Bert declared, looked real New Englandy, Uncle Tom gavehis young- auditors brief glimpses of the remarkable man whose homesteadthey were approaching. A stirring life, from the word go, was that of Andrew Jackson, hesaid. We see him first a rough, red-haired, Ireckle-laced, fatherless boyof the piney woods section of Carolina, picking up a poor living and apoorer schooling. A bluff and boisterous boy, I imagine ; something of abully, but never a coward. Brought up on the border, he was a belligerentbefore he was in his teens, fighting the British as a boy guerrilla, seeing and mother die through British cruelty, and early learning thelesson of hatred to the foes of A
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