Shaping America

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Ranchers, homesteaders, and traders

frontiersmen of the South-Central states
  • Doherty, Kieran
2001
Examines the settlement of the south-central region of the United States through the lives of seven explorers and founders, including Daniel Boone in Kentucky, and Stephen Austin and Sam Houston in Texas.

Puritans, pilgrims, and merchants

founders of the northeastern colonies
  • Doherty, Kieran
1999
Discusses the lives of eight people who were responsible for the founding of colonial settlements from Massachusetts to Pennsylvania.

Soldiers, cavaliers, and planters

settlers of the southeastern colonies
  • Doherty, Kieran
1999
Discusses the lives of nine people who were responsible for founding or fostering the growth of settlements in the colonial American South.
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