missouri

Presents a biography of the legendary frontiersman who explored Kentucky and the route to the West leading to American expansion of the United States.

Describes the geography, plants, animals, history, economy, language, religions, culture, sports, art, and people of the state of Missouri.

Huck, escaping from his cruel father, meets Jim, a runaway slave. Together they float down the Mississippi River.

Introduces the history, geography, people, economy, and environment of Missouri, and includes census data, recommended places to visit, maps and charts, the state song, and a recipe.

A fictional story featuring historical figures, in which George, a slave boy in 1850s St. Louis, gains his freedom with his mother, future White House dressmaker Elizabeth Keckly, and decides to use his liberty to help others escape.

After the Union Militia arrives to set her house on fire, driving her brother into hiding and taking her widowed father away, Adair Colley sets out on foot with her two young sisters hoping to find a safe haven in the winter mountains.

A mischievous early-nineteenth-century Missouri boy named Tom Sawyer embarks on a summer of adventures with his friends Huck and Becky after witnessing a shocking crime in the village graveyard.

The adventures of a mischievous young boy and his friends growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century.

Pictures and text trace the life, travels, and times of Daniel Boone.

Living in the border state of Missouri during the Civil War, fifteen-year-old Reeves tries to understand her father's decision regarding their slaves.