Books in Heroes of America series

Before America was even born, Daniel Boone explored its greatness!! He didn't follow the country wet, he led it. As a boy, he loved to hunt and track through the forests and mountains, to go into the unspoiled wilderness where few if any had ventured before. As a man, he became the greatest trailblazer and frontiersman in history, clearing his way across the continent for millions who would follow in his pioneering footsteps. This book contains 12 chapters from Born in America, First steps on the trail, the hunting life, war comes to the frontier, Rebecca, I'm goin to Kentucky, massacre in the forest, they've got my daughter, a daring rescue, the siege of Boonesborough and the end of the trail.

On a moonlit night in the spring of 1862, six slaves stole one of the Confederacy's most crucial gunships from its wharf in the South Carolina port of Charleston, and delivered it to the Federal Navy. This audacious and intricately coordinated escape, masterminded by a 24-year-old sailor named Robert Smalls, astonished the world and exploded the Confederate claim that Southern slaves did not crave freedom or have the ability to take decisive action.