American Hero Stories
Author | : Eva March Tappan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2001-06-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 1589633423 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781589633421 |
Rating | : 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: "American Hero Stories," originally published in 1906, contains five accounts of voyages and explorers, ranging from Columbus to Lewis and Clark; stories of five colonies of marked dissimilarity --Virginia, Quebec, Plymount, New York, and Philadelphia; brief lives of four pioneers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; fifteen short stories of war time; and a sketch of Roosevelts career.The chapters are arranged in chronological order, with a thread of continuity running through them. The aim of the book is to introduce in informal and friendly fashion some of the makers of American history, and to provide a simple, broad foundation for future study of history and biography.