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Benson John Lossing · 1889 · Scanned text · Free in the US
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Free in the US: this text is in the public domain in the United States; it may still be in copyright elsewhere.
Licence: PD · Library of Congress states the book is in the public domain and free to use and reuse (https://data.labs.loc.gov/digitized-books/README.html); published 1889, public domain asserted for the US only · Library of Congress, Selected Digitized Books (https://www.loc.gov/item/02002935); text via the Common Pile (CC BY 4.0 compilation, per-document rights preserved)
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You’ve reached the end of Lossing's new history of the United States, from the discovery of the American continent to the present time.