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.

Old Silver Leg

3 pages in this part of America First.

Old Silver Leg

The Dutch took possession of the Hudson River settlements, and for forty years their Governor ruled over the colony at the mouth of the…

Old Silver Leg: Council

Peter was very high-tempered and obstinate. He made his own laws and had them obeyed; but they were very good laws and he was a just old…

Old Silver Leg: English

And so the years went by, until the English settlements, up in Connecticut, began to worry the Dutch. As a matter of fact the English still…

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