American adventure

George Lankford, a fifteen-year-old in early nineteenth-century Cincinnati whose main interests include creating a steam engine and avoiding a friendship with the badly scarred new boy, Charles Lidell, finds his life radically changed when an earthquake hits town.

Hildy returns home to discover that her stepmother has abandoned her and taken her brother and four sisters. She refuses to stay with her backwoods grandmother and runs away with her cousin Ruby in hopes of finding her family.

Hildy travels with her family to California in search of a better life, only to find that her father's promised job has been given away. Sneered at and called "Okies", they pitch their tent under a bridge among other desitute migrant families.

When Hildy, a poor girl living in a small California town during the Depression, finds a stolen watch concealing a crude, hand-drawn map, she is accused of theft and must try to clear her name.

Joining her cousin Ruby on a search for Ruby's missing father, leads Hildy to a confrontation with wealthy cattleman, Ozzie Kessick.

Twelve-year-old John and his sister Sarah accompany their parents on the Mayflower as it sails to the New World where they hope to enjoy freedom of worship.

Examines the Lewis and Clark Expedition from 1804 to 1806, a mission undertaken from the purpose of exploring the Louisiana Purchase and finding a water route to the Pacific Ocean, providing information about encounters with Native Americans, natural obstacles, and related topics.

An account of relations between the Cherokee Nation and the United States in the early nineteenth century, particularly the reasons for, and difficulties of, the forced journey of the Cherokee to an Oklahoma reservation.

Twelve-year-old John and his ten-year-old sister experience hardship and adventure when they arrive at Plymouth Colony.

A color-illustrated look at cowboys in the American West from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century, which describes daily life on the cattle trail and ranches in the 1800s and the impact of cattle drives on Native Americans and settlers.