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.

Some Adventures of John Smith

5 pages in this part of America First.

Some Adventures of John Smith

Our hero of Jamestown, Virginia, was such a remarkable character that it is well for us to learn something of his adventures before he came…

Some Adventures of John Smith: Turkish

We next hear of him in Austria, where he joined the army and again set out on his way to fight the Turks. Smith won a great name for…

Some Adventures of John Smith: Indians

This made the Indians laugh, for they knew that the winter would find the white folks without food.

Some Adventures of John Smith: Indian

Later on, Captain Smith decided to explore the country, and, with a few men and two Indian guides he sailed up the Chickahominy River in…

Some Adventures of John Smith: Powhatan

When Powhatan saw the white man, he was greatly pleased, and ordered him fed abundantly that he might be fat when the time came to kill…

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