Calvert, Patricia

Pictures and text trace the life, travels, and times of Daniel Boone.

A collective biography of great figures in the history of the American frontier.

In 1867, after his father's death and his mother's remarriage, fourteen-year-old Tyler and his black friend Isaac set out on the Missouri River headed west to seek their fortunes, encountering an unsavory keel boat captain and a Sioux chief along the way.

Photographs and text trace Robert Peary's exploration of the Arctic, including his discovery of the North Pole.

When his father disappears near the Mexican border at the end of the Civil War, twelve-year-old Tyler decides to go after him and bring him home, acquiring on the journey a strange dog which he names Bigger.