From the publisher:
Very simply told stories of warriors, statesmen, explorers, scientists, inventors, men and women of letters, and others.
Table of Contents:
1. The First Governor in Boston
2. Marquette in Iowa
3. Indian Pictures
4. William Penn and the Indians
5. One Little Bag of Rice
6. The Story of a Wise Woman
7. Franklin His Own Teacher
8. How Franklin Found Out Things
9. Franklin Asks the Sunshine Something
10. Franklin and the Kite
11. Franklin's Whistle
12. John Stark and the Indians
13. A Great Good Man
14. Putnam and the Wolf
15. Washington and His Hatchet
16. How Benny West Learned To Be a Painter
17. Washington's Christmas Gift
18. How Washington Got Out of a Trap
19. Washington's Last Battle
20. Marion's Tower
21. Clark and His Men
22. Daniel Boone and His Grapevine Swing
23. Daniel Boone's Daughter and Her Friends
24. Decatur and the Pirates
25. Stories about Jefferson
26. A Long Journey
27. Captain Clark's Burning Glass
28. Quicksilver Bob
29. The First Steamboat
30. Washington Irving as a Boy
31. Don't Give up the Ship
32. The Star-Spangled Banner
33. How Audubon Came To Know About Birds
34. Audubon in the Wild Woods
35. Hunting a Panther
36. Some Boys Who Became Authors
37. Daniel Webster and His Brother
38. Webster and the Poor Woman
39. The India-Rubber Man
40. Doctor Kane in the Frozen Sea
41. A Dinner on the Ice
42. Doctor Kane Gets Out of the Frozen Sea
43. Longfellow as a Boy
44. Kit Carson and the Bears
45. Horace Greeley as a Boy
46. Horace Greeley Learning To Print
47. A Wonderful Woman
48. The Author of "Little Women"
