This story, which won a Pulitzer Prize, recalls the life of the talented silversmith and versatile Yankee who carefully and cleverly organized the patriots of Boston. It is a portrait of American colonial history and of this most legendary of revolutionary heroes.

In 1803, when the United States purchased Louisiana from France, the great expanse of this new American territory was a blank-not only on the map but in our knowledge. President Thomas Jefferson keenly understood that the course of the nation's destiny lay westward and that a national "Voyage of Discovery" must be mounted to determine the nature and accessibility of the frontier. He commissioned his young secretary, Meriwether Lewis, to lead an intelligence-gathering...

An account of the pirates and privateers such as Drake, Kidd and Hawkins who roamed the coastal waters of Central and South America, especially in the 16th and 17th centuries, in search of treasure-laden galleons.

The book is an account of Plains Indians--their history, tribal life, customs, warfare and ceremonies, and relations with white men.

Highlights the men who were pioneers in science and invention.

An account of the operations of the U.S. Navy and the men who participated in them.

The history of the Pilgrims from the time of the Reformation, when the sect was born, to the end of the Plymouth Colony in 1692.