SERGEANT YORK AND HIS PEOPLE
BY SAM K. COWAN
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS NEW YORK
By Arrangement with Funk & Wagnalls Company
[Stamped: 1610
Capital Heights Jr. High School Library
Montgomery, Alabama]
Copyright, 1922, By
FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
[Printed in the United States of America]
Copyright Under the Articles of the Copyright Convention of the
Pan-American Republics and the United States
August 11, 1910.
To
FLOY PASCAL COWAN
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED, WITH A LOVE THAT WANES NOT, BUT
GROWS AS THE YEARS ROLL ON
PUBLISHERS NEW YORK
By Arrangement with Funk & Wagnalls Company
[Stamped: 1610
Capital Heights Jr. High School Library
Montgomery, Alabama]
Copyright, 1922, By
FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
[Printed in the United States of America]
Copyright Under the Articles of the Copyright Convention of the
Pan-American Republics and the United States
August 11, 1910.
To
FLOY PASCAL COWAN
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED, WITH A LOVE THAT WANES NOT, BUT
GROWS AS THE YEARS ROLL ON
[Transcribers's Notes] This book complements "History of The World War" (Gutenberg 18993)—a broad view of many events and persons—with a personal and dramatic view of an Ideal American Soldier: thoughtful, brave, modest, charitable, loyal.
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Contents
I — A FIGHT IN THE FOREST OF THE ARGONNE II — A "Long Hunter" Comes to the Valley III — The People of the Mountains |
SERGEANT ALVIN C. YORK
From a cabin back in the mountains of Tennessee, forty-eight miles fromthe railroad, a young man went to the World War. He was untutored in theways of the world.
Caught by the enemy in the cove of
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