Sanders, Scott R

Twenty tales taken from folksongs reflecting American history, e.g. "Yankee Doodle, " "John Henry, " "The Blue-Tail Fly, " and "Frankie and Johnnie." Includes the original folk song lyrics.

As a boy and his father walk in the woods near their home, they share what they know about the bark, leaves, and fruit of the different species they see.

After being set free from slavery in 1832, young James Starman and his family journey from Tennessee to Indiana to start a new life and over the years they are joined by so many blacks that they start their own town.

The Goodwin family's pioneer home is visited by the traveling peddler, who brings wondrous things and amazing tales from far away.

Two children find fossils, salamanders, dragonflies, frogs, deer tracks, and many other "treasures" when they visit the creek near their home.

When Betsy Ward's family moves to Ohio from Connecticut in 1803, she brings along a sockful of coins to buy sheep so that she can gather wool, spin cloth, and make clothes to keep her children warm.

In 1815, the McClures sail their flatboat from Pittsburgh down the Ohio River and settle in what would later become Indiana.

After traveling from Connecticut to Ohio in 1800 to start a new life in the settlement of Aurora, the Sheldons find that they are the first family to arrive there and realize that they will be starting a new community by themselves.