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Adams, Samuel Hopkins
   The Pony Express (OOP)
   The Santa Fe Trail (OOP)
   The Erie Canal (Not sure if this is Chingo Smith of the Erie Canal) (OOP)
   General Brock and Niagara Falls (OOP)
Blassingame, Wyatt
   The French Foreign Legion
Bliven, Jr., Bruce
   The American Revolution
Boylston, Helen Dore
   Clara Barton, Founder of the American Red Cross (OOP)
Brown, John Mason
   Daniel Boone: The Opening of the Wilderness (OOP)
Brown, Slater
   Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys (OOP)
Bryan, III, J.
   The World's Greatest Showman: The Life of P. T. Barnum
Buck, Pearl S.
   The Man Who Changed China: The Story of Sun Yat-Sen (OOP)
Carter, Hodding
   Robert E. Lee and the Road of Honor
   The Marquis de Lafayette: Bright Sword for Freedom
Castor, Henry
   Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders (OOP)
   America's First World War General Pershing and the Y (OOP)
Considine, Robert
   The Panama Canal (OOP)
Considine, Bob and Lawson, Ted
   Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (OOP)
Costain, Thomas B.
   The Mississippi Bubble
Crouse, Anna and Russel
   Peter Stuyvesant of Old New York (OOP)
   Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr (OOP)
Cousins, Margaret and Thomas, J.
   Ben Franklin of Old Philadelphia
Daniel, Anita
   The Story of Albert Schweitzer (OOP)
Daugherty, James
   The Landing of the Pilgrims
   Trappers and Traders of the Far West (OOP)
   The Magna Charta (OOP)
Davenport, Marcia
   Garibaldi Father of Modern Italy (OOP)
Dobie, J. Frank
   Up the Trail from Texas (OOP)
Douglas, William O.
   Exploring the Himalaya
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
   Paul Revere and the Minute Men (OOP)
   Our Independence and the Constitution (OOP)
Fosdick, Harry Emerson
    Martin Luther (OOP)
    The Life of Saint Paul (OOP)
Forester, C. S.
   The Barbary Pirates (OOP)
Gunther, John
   Alexander the Great (OOP)
   Julius Caesar (OOP)
Hahn, Emily
   Mary, Queen of Scots (OOP)
   Leonardo da Vinci (OOP)
Hanson, Harry
   Old Ironsides
   The Fighting Constitution
Havighurst, Walter
    Buffalo Bill's Great Wild West Show (OOP)
Henty, Will
    The Texas Rangers
Hill, Ralph Nading
    Robert Fulton and the Steamboat (OOP)
    The Doctors Who Conquered Yellow Fever (OOP)
Holbrook, Stewart H.
   Wild Bill Hickock Tames the West (OOP)
   Davy Crockett (OOP)
   Wyatt Earp: U.S. Marshal (OOP)
Household, Geoffrey and Fisher, Leonard E.
   The Exploits of Xenophon (OOP)
Hunt, George P.
  The Story of the U.S. Marines (OOP)
Jackson, Charlotte
   The Story of San Francisco
Janeway, Elizabeth
   The Vikings
   The Early Days of Automobiles (OOP)
Jennings, John
   Clipper Ship Days
Johnson, William
   Sam Houston, The Tallest Texan
Kantor, MacKinlay
   Lee and Grant at Appomattox
Kelly, Regina Z.
   Lincoln and Douglas
Kielty, Bernadine
   Marie Antoinette
   The Fall of Constantinople
Kieran, Margaret and John
   John James Audubon
Kjelgaard, Jim
   The Explorations of Pere Marquette
   The Coming of the Mormons
Kuhn, Ferdinand
   Commodore Perry and the Opening of Japan
   The Story of the Secret Service
Lamb, Harold
   Genghis Khan and the Mongol Horde
Lawson, Marie
   Pocahontas and Captain John Smith
Lewis, Oscar
   Hawaii: The Gem of the Pacific
Marriott, Alice
   Sequoyah: Leader of the Cherokees
Mayer, Jane
   Betsy Ross and the Flag
   Dolly Madison
McNeer, May
   California Gold Rush
   War Chief of the Seminoles
Moody, Ralph
   Kit Carson and the Wild Frontier
   Geronimo: Wolf of the Warpath
Morenus, Richard
   The Hudson's Bay Company
Nathan, Adele
   The Building of the First Transcontinental Railroad
Neuberger, Richard L.
   The Lewis and Clark Expedition
   Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Norman, Charles
   The Flight and Adventures of Charles II
North, Sterling
   George Washington: Frontier Colonel
Owen, Russell
   The Conquest of the North and South Poles
Pinkerton, Robert
   The First Overland Mail
Pond, Seymour Gates
   Ferdinand Magellan
   The Story of the Naval Academy
Pratt, Fletcher
   The Monitor and the Merrimac
Rachlis, Eugene
   The Voyages of Henry Hudson
Reeder, Colonel Red and Campian, Nardi Reeder
   The West Point Story
Reynolds, Quentin
   The Wright Brothers: Pioneers of American Aviation
   Custer's Last Stand
   The F.B.I.
   The Battle of Britain
   The Life of Saint Patrick
Robinson, Mabel L.
   King Arthur and His Knights
Ross, Nancy Wilson
   Joan of Arc
Scherman, Katharine
   The Slave Who Freed Haiti
   Catherine the Great
Sheean, Vincent
   Thomas Jefferson: Father of Democracy
Shippen, Katherine B.
   Mr. Bell Invents the Telephone
   Andrew Carnegie and the Age of Steel
Smith, Bradford
   Rogers' Rangers and the French and Indian War
Sperry, Armstrong
   The Voyages of Christopher Columbus
   John Paul Jones: Fighting Sailor
   Captain Cook Explores the South Seas
Stewart, George R.
   To California by Covered Wagon
Streatfield, Noel
   Queen Victoria
Tallant, Robert
   The Pirate Lafitte and the Battle of New Orleans
   The Louisiana Purchase
   Evangeline and the Acadians
Thompson, Laurence
   The Story of Scotland Yard
Tinkle, Lon
   The Story of Oklahoma
Tregaskis, Richard
    Guadalcanal Diary
Van Wyck Mason
   The Winter at Valley Forge
Walsh, Richard J.
   The Adventures and Discoveries of Marco Polo
Warren, Robert Penn
   Remember the Alamo!
Weller, George
   The Story of the Paratroops
West, Anthony
   The Crusades
Whipple, A.B.C.
   Hero of Trafalgar: The Story of Lord Nelson
   Famous Pirates of the New World
White, Anne Terry
   George Washington Carver
   Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre
Whitridge, Arnold
   Simon Bolivar
Winwar, Frances
   Napoleon and the Battle of Waterloo
   Queen Elizabeth and the Spanish Armada
Young, Stanley
   Tippecanoe and Tayler, Too!