Grant, Matthew G

A brief biography of the famed frontiersman who led settlers into Kentucky, was elected to the Kentucky assembly, and lost his own land there in disastrous legal battles.

A brief biography of the Seminole leader who fought against President Jackson's decree to move his people west.

A brief biography of the southern plantation owner whose knowledge of the swamps helped keep the Revolution alive in the South.

An easy-to-read-biography of the soldier and politician who helped gain Texas independence from Mexico and became first president of the new Republic of Texas in 1836.

A brief biography stressing the personal and political turmoil in the career of the Civil War leader who became the eighteenth President.

A biography of the teacher, nurse, and founder of the American Red Cross.

A brief account of the life and discoveries of the Norse explorer who became one of the first white men to visit America.

An easy-to-read biography of Elizabeth Blackwell who overcame many difficulties to become the first woman physician in the United States.

An easy-to-read biography of the woman who devoted her life to the abolition movement and the fight for equal rights of blacks and women.

A biography of the wealthy Spanish explorer who became the first white man to cross the Mississippi.