American Leaders and Heroes

This edition presents incredible lives of some of the most notable persons of American history. It is hoped that this book will furnish reader's mind some conception of what American history is, and at the same time stimulate an abiding interest in historical and biographical reading.

Contents:

Christopher Columbus and the Discovery Of America

Hernando De Soto and the Discovery of the Mississippi

Sir Walter Raleigh and the First English Attempts to Colonize America

John Smith and the Settlement of Jamestown

Nathaniel Bacon and the Uprising of the People in Virginia in 1676

Miles Standish and the Pilgrims

Roger Williams and the Puritans

William Penn and the Settlement of Pennsylvania

Cavelier De La Salle and the French in the Mississippi Valley

George Washington, the Boy Surveyor and Young Soldier

James Wolfe, the Hero of Quebec

Patrick Henry and the Stamp Act

Samuel Adams and the Boston Tea Party

Paul Revere and the Battle of Concord and Lexington

Benjamin Franklin and Aid from France

George Washington, the Virginia Planter and the Revolutionary Soldier

Nathaniel Greene, the Hero of the South, and Francis Marion, the "Swamp Fox"

Daniel Boone, the Kentucky Pioneer

Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase

Robert Fulton and the Steamboat

Andrew Jackson, the Upholder of the Union

Daniel Webster, the Defender and Expounder of the Constitution

Samuel Finley Breese Morse and the Electric Telegraph

Abraham Lincoln, the Liberator of the Slaves

Ulysses Simpson Grant and the Civil War

Some Leaders and Heroes in the War with Spain