| 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 |