A Pull ahead book

Brief biographies of seventeen singers and musicians who helped develop the blues style and became legendary performers during their lifetime.

Brief descriptions of the lives and exploits of fourteen spies from various historical periods and geographical areas.

Recounts the exploits of nine pirates and buccaneers who sailed and plundered on the seas from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century.

Brief biographies of fourteen men and women who dedicated their lives to studying some aspect of nature.

Biographies of thirteen American Indian leaders who tried to halt the gradual destruction of their people.

Brief biographies of fourteen nine-teenth-century men and women involved in such reform movements as women's rights, temperance, and the abolition of slavery.

Vignettes of fourteen famous outlaws or gangs and their crimes and deaths. Includes Jesse James, The Reno Brothers, John Wesley Hardin, The Apache Kid, and Belle Starr.

Brief biographies of some well-known lawmen and other personalities of the Old West whose characters and exploits have become legendary.

A brief discussion of the techniques and functions of political cartoons accompanies capsule biographies of sixteen political cartoonists from Ben Franklin to Tom Darcy.