Books in Adventures in Frontier America Series series

It is March of 1885, and New York City is preparing to accept a gift from the people of France to the people of America: the Statue of Liberty. There is a slight problem, though. The statue needs a base to stand on, and raising funds is proving difficult. Twelve-year-old Emma Kagan has a problem, too safely delivering a package from her Lower East Side neighborhood to a department store miles north. Little does Emma know that her errand will involve a newfound friend, the police, and the Statue of Liberty herself.

PARENTLESS at a young age, young Christopher Carson escapes his unfeeling guardian and sets out for what was to become Missouri. What young Carson himself was to become would be one of the greatest of all the legendary mountain men. Finding his way to Santa Fe on the famous trail, he meets up with the trappers and traders and the rest is history. Ellis’s telling of the life of Kit Carson is more than the dry chronicling of who, where, and when. A prolific writer of fact and fiction in his own name or in pseudonym, Ellis unravels the adventures of his subject in thrilling detail: enduring hard winters, pursuing Crow and Blackoot horse thieves, fending off grizzlies! Kit Carson’s reputation precedes him in his wanderings. He meets John C. Fremont and is commissioned as guide for the famous explorer’s first western expedition—the first of three in which he would take part. For his exploits in the U.S.–Mexican War, Carson was awarded a commission in the U.S. Army. Briefly turning to ranching, he is soon called back to lend his valuable services so many depended upon.

Part of the Adventures on the American Frontiers series intended for students with a third to fifth grade reading ability. Contents include: (1) Peter Francis, Buccaneer, (2) Henry King's Escape from a Privateer, (3) Captain Kidd, Pirate, (4) Blackbeard's Capture, (5) Stede Bonnet, Landlubber Pirate, and (6) Silas Talbot, Heroic Privateer. Profusely illustrated.