A Discovery book

John James Audubon's great talent as an American nature artist was recognized only after he had endured many years of economic hardship.

Simple biography of William F. Cody, better known as Buffalo Bill. During his lifetime he worked as a rider for the Pony Express, a buffalo hunter, a scout for the U.S. calvary and a showman in his own Wild West Show.

A biography of the explorer who discovered a great river and bay and charted rich lands in the American wilderness.

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

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.

A biography of the inventor of the cotton gin who also developed basic ideas of mass production in the manufacture of weapons and other machines.

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.

A biography of the Washington lawyer and amateur verse writer who composed the words of "The Star-Spangled Banner" during the War of 1812.

A biography of the man, born a slave, who became a scientist and devoted his entire life to helping the South improve its agriculture.