history

In the bitter winter of 1775-76, Colonel Henry Knox and his younger brother Will, both of the Continental Army, become frustrated with the British blockade of Boston and decide to attempt to move 183 cannons from Fort Ticonderoga, over 300 miles of mountainous wilderness, to defend the besieged city.

Color illustrations fill this history of the events leading to the Revolutionary War, which describes such aspects as the Stamp Act, the Boston Massacre, and the "shot heard 'round the world.".

Presents the story of the first Thanksgiving as celebrated by the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag Indians. Includes a drawing activity section at the end of the book.

An illustrated storybook based on the 2002 animated DreamWorks film about Spirit, a wild horse in the American West that leads the Cimarron herd, and never gives up its dream of freedom after being captured by the military.

Illustrations and simple text chronicle Paul Revere's 1775 ride to warn American soldiers that British troops were on the way.

Simply describes how the first Thanksgiving came to be celebrated by the Pilgrims, with a brief mention of some of the traditions that are connected to the holiday today.

A brief biography of the seventeenth-century Indian princess who befriended Captain John Smith and the English settlers of Jamestown.

A simple biography of the well-known frontiersman, Daniel Boone.

Discusses the life of John Hancock, one of the the wealthiest men in the American colonies and a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Presents a biography of the Massachusetts radical whose belief in forceful protest against injustice made him one of the leaders of the American Revolution.