About This Book
A school-oriented introduction offers brief biographical sketches and episodic narratives about explorers, colonial founders, military leaders, inventors, and statesmen who shaped early American development. Numbered paragraphs organize the material for classroom use and are accompanied by pronunciation guides, review questions, maps, and illustrations. The text emphasizes clear, verifiable anecdotes about voyages, territorial growth, civic actions, and technological advances, presenting facts and principles in straightforward language for beginning students.
About the Author
More Books by This Author
1 picks
You May Also Like
6 picks
!Tention: A Story of Boy-Life during the Peninsular War
by George Manville Fenn
"Boy" the Wandering Dog: Adventures of a Fox-Terrier
by Marshall Saunders
"Carrots:" Just a Little Boy
by Mrs. Molesworth
"Granny's Chapters" (on scriptural subjects) / The New Testament, with a Sketch of the Subsequent History of the Jews.
by Lady Mary Ross
"Great-Heart": The Life Story of Theodore Roosevelt
by Daniel Henderson
"Say Fellows—" / Fifty Practical Talks with Boys on Life's Big Issues
by Wade C. Smith
