Stories of New Jersey [Illustrated]

• This book is an edited and illustrated version of the original one and comes with 18 or more unique illustrations that are relevant to its content.
• Novelist Frank R. Stockton, in "Stories of New Jersey," sets out in narrative form the history of Garden State - beginning with the meetings in the Council House of the "Lenape" or "Grandfather Tribe," the landing of Henry Hudson at Bergen Point, and the colony-making efforts of the West India Company of Holland.
On his way toward modern times, Stockton stops to take in the most interesting and colorful tales from city and country - such as that of Penelope Stout, shipwrecked and then attacked by a party of natives, who then manages to survive within a hollowed-out tree - or that of the schoolmaster who discovers his one-room schoolhouse is turning into a gambling house in the dead of night