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Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans

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Aimed at beginning readers, this collection presents brief, simply worded biographical sketches and anecdotes about explorers, colonial leaders, inventors, artists, and other notable Americans. Each piece uses short sentences, familiar vocabulary, occasional hyphenation, and illustrations to aid decoding and sustain interest. Rather than exhaustive histories, the narratives highlight vivid incidents of resourcefulness, courage, curiosity, and civic virtue to introduce historical figures and themes, offer moral lessons, and make early reading practice engaging and relevant to the young learner.

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Title: Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans

Author: Edward Eggleston

Release date: November 1, 2003 [eBook #10070]
Most recently updated: October 28, 2024

Language: English

Credits: Juliet Sutherland, Michael Lockey and PG Distributed Proofreaders

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK STORIES OF GREAT AMERICANS FOR LITTLE AMERICANS ***

Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans

by Edward Eggleston

AUTHOR OF “TRUE STORIES OF AMERICAN LIFE AND ADVENTURE” “A FIRST BOOK IN AMERICAN HISTORY” AND “A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES AND ITS PEOPLE FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS”

1895


Contents

PREFACE
The First Governor in Boston
Marquette in Iowa
Indian Pictures
William Penn and the Indians
One Little Bag of Rice
The Story of a Wise Woman
Franklin his own Teacher
How Franklin found out Things
Franklin asks the Sunshine something
Franklin and the Kite
Franklin’s Whistle
Too much for the Whistle
John Stark and the Indians
A Great Good Man
Putnam and the Wolf
Washington and his Hatchet
How Benny West learned to be a Painter
Washington’s Christmas Gift
How Washington got out of a Trap
Washington’s Last Battle
Marion’s Tower
Clark and his Men
Daniel Boone and his Grapevine Swing
Daniel Boone’s Daughter and her Friends
Decatur and the Pirates
Stories about Jefferson
A Long Journey
Captain Clark’s Burning Glass
Quicksilver Bob
The First Steamboat
Washington Irving as a Boy
Don’t give up the Ship
Grandfather’s Rhyme
The Star-spangled Banner
How Audubon came to know about Birds
Audubon in the Wild Woods
Hunting a Panther
Some Boys who became Authors
Daniel Webster and his Brother
Webster and the Poor Woman
The India-rubber Man
Doctor Kane in the Frozen Sea
A Dinner on the Ice
Doctor Kane gets out of the Frozen Sea
Longfellow as a Boy
Kit Carson and the Bears
Horace Greeley as a Boy
Horace Greeley learning to Print
A Wonderful Woman
The Author of “Little Women”
My Kingdom
A Song from the Suds