In my own words

Presents the diary of the Civil War veteran who led an expedition down the Colorado River to explore the depths of the Grand Canyon.

A young Confederate soldier records his fears, experiences, and thoughts about the war in his journal.

Presents the diary of the wife of General George Armstrong Custer, focusing on their life on the Great Plains from 1873 to 1876, when Custer and his Seventh Cavalry were clearing the way for the Northern Pacific Railroad and battling Native Americans.

Presents the letters of a woman who made a life for herself and her daughter by homesteading in Wyoming in the early years of the twentieth century.

Presents the diary of the Civil War veteran who led an expedition down the Colorado River to explore the depths of the Grand Canyon.

The diary of a young Connecticut farmer, who fought against the British in the Revolutionary War.

A young prospector describes his experiences traveling overland to the California gold fields and during the five years he spent digging for gold.

The experiences, based on her own account, of Mary Jemison who was captured by a Shawnee war party when she was twelve and subsequently rescued and adopted by the Seneca with whom she chose to remain the rest of her long life.

Excerpts from the diary of a woman who served as nurse to a regiment of black soldiers fighting for the Union during the Civil War, including her observations on the treatment of "coloreds" after the war.