A Child's First Book of American History
by Earl Schenck Miers Author, James Daugherty Illustrator
Among the fifty chapters included are: the faith and longing for freedom of worship that brought the band of Pilgrims to Plymouth's shores; James Smith's own account of his capture by the Indians in 1755; excerpts from Davy Crockett's diary, telling of the last days of the Alamo; a young Southern girl's description of the burning of Columbia, S.C., in the Civil War. Miers has recreated unforgettably, the hardships of a cattle drive, the inspiring story of how Booker T. Washington overcame great obstacles to build a school, the suspense that held America in a spell in 1927 when a young man named Lindbergh flew to Paris by himself.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 978-1-893103-41-2
- Print Status
- In Print
- chapters
- 51
- Pages
- 320
- Suggested Grades
- 4th - 7th
- Historical Setting
- 1000 - 1945
- Publisher
- Beautiful Feet Books
- Copyright
- 1955/2013
- Written
- 1955
chapters
- 0 A Call To Adventure
- 1 They Never Tasted Dew So Sweet
- 2 The Light
- 3 The Troublesome Corpse
- 4 Cradle of Our Liberties
- 5 Freedom to Worship God
- 6 Black Robe
- 7 "A Clean-Made People"
- 8 "Shoot Um Down All One Pigeon"
- 9 Poor Richard
- 10 Soldier Washington
- 11 Mohawk Raiders
- 12 Yankee Doodle
- 13 "We Hold These Truths"
- 14 The Winter of Despair
- 15 March to Vincennes
- 16 "The World Turned Upside Down"
- 17 "We The People"
- 18 In Peace as in War
- 19 Pig in A Poke
- 20 Old Hickory and the Pirate
- 21 Poisoned Arrows and Grizzly Bears
- 22 Dame Schools and Blab Schools
- 23 "Remember the Alamo"
- 24 Mark Twain's Mississippi
- 25 By the North Star
- 26 "Lower Away!"
- 27 Christmas at Donner Lake
- 28 A Word that Burns Like Fever
- 29 Proving Ground
- 30 "The Tall Sucker"
- 31 How the News Reached Nevada
- 32 Johnny Reb
- 33 The Secret of the Old Desk
- 34 When The world Ended
- 35 "Ou! Bum! Haugh!"
- 36 "The Bones of Men and Animals"
- 37 The Golden Spike
- 38 Prairie Tragedy
- 39 Only Comanche Survived
- 40 Six Eggs
- 41 America On Wheels
- 42 Smoke in the Harbor
- 43 "Please Do Not Shoot The Umpire"
- 44 "Wizard of Electricity"
- 45 "Nails in the Coffin of the Kaiser"
- 46 Tommy and his Crystal Set
- 47 "Which Way is Ireland?"
- 48 "War is a Contagion"
- 49 Operation Overlord
- 50 The Lone Plane
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