Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-naming in the United States

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Houghton Mifflin, 1958 - Names, Geographical - 511 pages
With a wealth of historical and anecdotal detail, the author traces the origins and evolution of the principal place-names in the United States, and every American should find fascination in the discovery of the strange circumstances by which names long familiar came into being.

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Of what is attempted in this book
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Of the naming that was before history
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How the first Spaniards gave names II
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