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.

Osceola, the Seminole Chief

2 pages in this part of America First.

Osceola, the Seminole Chief

When Florida was purchased by the United States from Spain, there remained on that territory the Seminole Indians, who had to be dealt…

Osceola, the Seminole Chief: Seminoles

The presence of the Seminoles was a menace in another direction. Escaped slaves often found their way into the Everglades, and became…

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