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 Expedition of Lewis and Clark

2 pages in this part of America First.

The Expedition of Lewis and Clark

The purchase from France, in 1803, of the great territory between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains, known as Louisiana, gave…

The Expedition of Lewis and Clark: Indians

At night, they would tie up to a bank where there was a spring, or clear stream of fresh water; then they would build a big camp fire of…

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