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 Boy Who Saved a Village

2 pages in this part of America First.

The Boy Who Saved a Village

In western pioneer days, out on the Pacific Coast, the adventurous life of the settlers was beset with many dangers. About the time the…

The Boy Who Saved a Village: Indians

After a while, other settlers came and, for protection, moved in the neighborhood; thus, after a time, quite a colony grew up. The Indians…

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