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Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, Oregon pioneers

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

Florence Nightingale, war nurse

A biography of the founder of modern nursing.

Buffalo Bill, Wild West showman

A biography of a hunter, scout, frontier hero, and star of a Wild West show.

P. T. Barnum, king of the circus.

1966
Young P. T. Barnum had many discouraging job experiences until the purchase of an old and dusty museum gave him the opportunity to commence his fabulous career as the "greatest showman on earth.".

Robert H. Goddard

space pioneer
1972
A brief biography of the scientist whose inventions led to the bazooka, the jet engine, and the space rocket.

Jim Beckwourth: Black trapper and Indian chief

1973
Biography of the nineteenth-century hunter, trapper, Indian chief, trader, gold seeker, innkeeper, and rancher who discovered a pass in the Sierra Nevadas which bears his name.

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.

Florence Nightingale, war nurse

A biography of the founder of modern nursing.

Booker T. Washington: leader of his people

A biography of the black educator and organizer of Tuskegee Institute who spent his life working for equality for the people of his race.

Robert E. Lee, hero of the South

A biography of the general who commanded the confederate Army during the Civil War.

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