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.

The Adventures of Young Washington

3 pages in this part of America First.

The Adventures of Young Washington

When Washington was twenty-one years old, he was sent by Governor Dinwiddie, of Virginia, with a message to the French Commander in the…

The Adventures of Young Washington: French

When they reached the French settlement, they found the officer in charge busily engaged, preparing his fort. Washington delivered the…

The Adventures of Young Washington: Indian

The long pathless forest, the steep mountains, the swollen streams, the treacherous savages, hunger and cold, lay before Washington; but…

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