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.

Sir William Phips and the Treasure Ship

2 pages in this part of America First.

Sir William Phips and the Treasure Ship

This is the story of a poor boy who lived on a miserable plantation on the Kennebec River, in New England, yet who ended by becoming a…

Sir William Phips and the Treasure Ship: Bahamas

These were the days when Spanish ships were seeking silver and gold and precious stones on the coast of Peru; when they were carrying their…

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