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The Wright brothers

A biography of the brothers who made the world's first flight in a power-driven, heavier-than-air machine at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in 1903.

Samuel F. B. Morse, artist-inventor

A brief biography of the inventor of the telegraph and Morse code, who planned from early childhood to be a painter of great historical pictures but first won recognition as a portrait painter.

Samuel F. B. Morse, artist-inventor

A brief biography of the inventor of the telegraph and Morse code, who planned from early childhood to be a painter of great historical pictures but first won recognition as a portrait painter.

Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, Oregon pioneers

A short biography of the couple who were Presbyterian missionaries, doctor, and teacher to the Indians of Oregon.

Martha Washington: First Lady of the Land

An easy-to-read account of the public and private life of the Nation's first First Lady.

Sam Houston, hero of Texas

A brief account of Sam Houston who served as a Congressman and Governor of Tennessee before his association with Texas began.

U.S. Grant, horseman and fighter

A biography of the general who commanded the victorious Union armies at the close of the Civil War and who later became the eighteenth President of the United States.

Alexander Graham Bell, man of sound

A biography of the scientist and educator who invented the telephone.

Clara Barton: soldier of mercy

A biography of the humanitarian whose greatest achievement was the founding of the American Red Cross.

Eli Whitney, great inventor

A brief biography of the inventor of a gin to seed upland cotton and of a way to mass produce musket locks.

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