The Western Series of Readers 



EDITED BY HARR WAGNER 



Designed Especially for Supplementary Work in 



HISTORY AND NATURE STUDY 



In Our Public Schools 



All Fully and Beautifully Illustrated. Each Volume Contains from 

 Eighteen to Twenty-Six Full-Page Pictures. 



EXTENSIVELY ADOPTED AND USED IN THE SCHOOLS OF THE PACIFIC COAST 



VOL. I 



PACIFIC HISTORY STORIES 



By HARR WAGNER 



FOP Fourth and Fifth Grades 



During the short time that this book has been on the market its 

 sale has been phenomenal. It is pronounced, by all of our leading 

 educators, to be excellently adapted to the work for which it was 

 intended a supplementary reader in history study in the Fourth 

 and Fifth Grades. Fully two-thirds of the counties in California 

 have this book on their supplementary and library list. 



VOL. II 



PACIFIC NATURE STORIES 



By HARR WAGNER and DAVID S. JORDAN and others 



For Fourth and Fifth Grades 



A companion volume to the above. It contains some eighteen most 

 interesting and instructive sketches of our Western animal and 

 vegetable life, all told in a delightfully flowing style aud written by 

 the greatest educators of the West. As a reading book in nature 

 study it cannot be excelled. 



VOL. Ill 



NATURE STORIES OF THE NORTHWEST 



By HERBERT BASHFORD 



State Librarian of Washington 



For Sixth and Seventh Grades 



This book covers a more extended field than Volume II, and is not 

 strictly confined to the Northwest. Among the interesting stories 

 will be found those of The Black Bear , The Kingfisher, The Clam, 

 The Meadowlark, The Seals, etc., all of which are of interest to any 

 pupil in the West. The illustrations are works of art and true to 

 nature. 



