Contents: Christopher Columbus -- Indian -- Hernando De Soto -- Peregrine White and Virginia Dare -- Pocahontas -- Miles Standish -- Pilgrims and Puritans -- Peter Stuyvesant -- Southern ships and settlers -- Cotton Mather -- Captain Kidd -- French pioneers -- Oliver De Lancey -- George Washington -- John Paul Jones -- Abigail Adams -- John Adams -- Benjamin Franklin -- Benedict Arnold -- Thomas Jefferson -- Alexander Hamilton -- Aaron Burr -- Johnny Appleseed -- Lewis and Clark -- Dolly Madison -- James Monroe -- John Quincey Adams -- Andrew Jackson -- Zachary Taylor -- John James Audubon -- Nancy Hanks -- Daniel Boone -- Crawford Long and William Morton -- Sam Houston -- Western wagons -- Clipper ships and captains -- James Buchanan -- Crazy Horse -- Stonewall Jackson -- Abraham Lincoln -- Negro spirituals -- Ulysses S. Grant -- Robert E. Lee -- David Farragut -- Clara Barton -- Daniel Drew -- Jesse James -- Grover Cleveland -- P.T. Barnum -- Walter Reed -- Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright -- Robert E. Peary --- Theodore Roosevelt -- Woodrow Wilson -- U.S.A.