America First: One Hundred Stories From Our Own History
by Lawton B. Evans Author
(From Amazon): Excerpt from America First: One Hundred Stories From Our Own HistoryWhen children advance beyond the nursery age, no story is so wonderful as a true story. Fiction to them is never as appealing as fact. I have often been faced with the inquiry: whether or not a story is a true one. The look of gratification, when told that it actually happened, was most satisfying to me as a story-teller.The nearer a story is to the life and traditions of the child, the more eagerly it is attended. True stories about our own people, about our neighbors and friends, and about our own country at large, are more interesting than true stories of remote places and people. We naturally are interested in our own affairs, and the nearer they are to us the greater the interest we feel.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 978-1-331-09581-1
- Print Status
- In Print
- Chapters
- 102
- Pages
- 478
- Suggested Grades
- 1st - 3rd
- Geographical Setting
- United States of America
- Publisher
- Forgotten Books
- Copyright
- 2017
Chapters
- 1 Leif, The Lucky
- 2 How the Spaniards Conquered Mexico
- 3 The Conquest of Peru
- 4 The Fountain of Youth
- 5 De Soto Discovers the Mississippi
- 6 Sir Walter Raleigh
- 7 The Lost Colony of Roanoke
- 8 Some Adventures of John Smith
- 9 More Adventures of John Smith
- 10 Persecution of the Pilgrims
- 11 The Adventures of Miles Standish
- 12 Building a Canoe
- 13 The flight of Roger Williams
- 14 Old Silver Leg
- 15 William Penn and the Quakers
- 16 The Charter Oak
- 17 Bloody Marsh
- 18 The Saving of Hadley
- 19 Sir William Phips and the Treasure Ship
- 20 Hannah Dustin
- 21 Israel Putnam Captures the Wolf
- 22 A Young Surveyor
- 23 The Adventures of Young Washington
- 24 How the Indians Treated Major Putnam
- 25 How Detroit was saved
- 26 The Story of Acadia
- 27 Blackbeard, The Pirate
- 28 The Adventures of Daniel Boone
- 29 Sunday in the Colonies
- 30 The Salem Witches
- 31 Traveling by Stage Coach
- 32 King George and the Colonies
- 33 Patrick Henry and the Parson's Cause
- 34 Paul Revere's Ride
- 35 The Green Mountain Boys
- 36 The Father of His Country
- 37 Nathan Hale
- 38 The Bravery of Elizabeth Zane
- 39 Capturing the Hessians
- 40 How Lafayette Came to America
- 41 The Patriotism of Lydia Darrah
- 42 Captain Molly Pitcher
- 43 Marion, The Swamp-fox
- 44 Outwitting a Tory
- 45 Supporting the Colors
- 46 Nancy Hart, The War Woman of Georgia
- 47 Mad Anthony Captures Stony Point
- 48 The Execution of Major Andre
- 49 How General Schuyler was saved
- 50 An Indian Trick that Failed
- 51 How the Northwest was won
- 52 Benjamin Franklin
- 53 Nolichucky Jack
- 54 Eli Whitney Invents the Cotton Gin
- 55 Thomas Jefferson
- 56 The Burning of Philadelphia
- 57 The Expedition of Lewis and Clark
- 58 Colter's Race for Life
- 59 Pike Explores the Arkansas Valley
- 60 How the pumpkins saved a family
- 61 Old Ironsides
- 62 Tecumseh
- 63 The Star Spangled Banner
- 64 Traveling by the Canal
- 65 Lafayette's Return to America
- 66 Osceola, The Seminole Cheif
- 67 An Early Journey by Railroad
- 68 Old Hickory
- 69 Henry Clay
- 70 Christmas on the Plantation
- 71 John C Calhoun
- 72 The Heroes of the Alamo
- 73 Sam Houston wins the freedom for Texas
- 74 The invention of the electric telegraph
- 75 The discovery of gold in California
- 76 Crossing the continent
- 77 The Pony Express
- 78 The boy who saved a village
- 79 The Rescue of Jerry
- 80 Abraham Lincoln
- 81 Robert E Lee
- 82 Stonewall Jackson
- 83 Stealing a Locomotive
- 84 Sam Davis
- 85 An Escape from Prison
- 86 Running the Blockade
- 87 Through the heart of the south
- 88 The Surrender of General Lee
- 89 Laying the Atlantic Cable
- 90 The Story of the Telephone
- 91 Thomas A Edison, The great inventor
- 92 Clara Barton and the Red Cross
- 93 Hobson and the Merrimac
- 94 Dewey at Manila Bay
- 95 Conquering the Yellow Fever
- 96 The Sinking of the Lusitania
- 97 The Last Race of Private Treptow
- 98 Frank Luke Jr. - Aviator
- 99 The Exploits of Sergeant York
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