Excerpt from The Young Citizen You have learned by this time something about the vast extent and the enormous natural riches of our country. You have seen on the map how it stretches through thousands of miles, from ocean to ocean. You have followed the courses of its great rivers. You know where its mountain ranges lie. You have read of its vast fields where cotton and corn and wheat grow for the millions of the world. You have seen in what States are mines of gold, silver, and copper, and, what is even more important, of coal and iron. You know some of the cities where the great mills and factories are, and where they build the great ships. Surely no country has such extensive riches or so many happy homes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.