America First: 100 Stories from Our Own History

Leif the Lucky, the swamp march to Vincennes, the Pony Express — a hundred true adventure stories from American history, told the way children begged to hear them in 1920.

A Young Surveyor

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A Young Surveyor

When Washington was a boy, there lived in Virginia an old English nobleman, by the name of Lord Fairfax. He had come into possession of a…

A Young Surveyor: Fairfax

The latter was a fashionable young nobleman in London society; so he sent his cousin, William Fairfax, to look after his great estate in…

A Young Surveyor: George

So he came across seas, and, with his cousin, dwelt in his fine mansion at Belvoir, not far from the Washington estate at Mount Vernon…

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