Sam Houston

By Jan Gleiter

Recounts the story of the man who lived with the Cherokee Indians, served as an American soldier, and became involved in Texas politics.

Jack London

By Jan Gleiter

A brief biography with emphasis on the early life of the early twentieth-century author who incorporated many of his own experiences as sailor, goldminer, and adventurer into his books.

Booker T. Washington

By Jan Gleiter

Traces the life of the black educator who rose from slavery to found Tuskegee Institute.

John James Audubon

By Jan Gleiter

Presents that part of Audubon's life when he sailed down the Mississippi on a flatboat, along with his assistant Joseph Mason sketching birds along the way.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

By Jan Gleiter

A biography of one of the first leaders of the women's rights movement, whose work led to the adoption of the nineteenth amendment--women's right to vote.

Sequoyah

By Kathleen Thompson, Jan Gleiter

A biography of the Cherokee Indian who invented a system of writing for his people in the early nineteenth century and after whom the giant sequoia trees and Sequoia National Park were named.

John James Audubon

By Jan Gleiter

Presents that part of Audubon's life when he sailed down the Mississippi on a flatboat, along with his assistant Joseph Mason sketching birds along the way.

Matthew Henson

By Jan Gleiter

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

By Jan Gleiter

A biography of one of the first leaders of the women's rights movement, whose work led to the adoption of the nineteenth amendment--women's right to vote.

Sequoya

By Jan Gleiter

A biography of the Cherokee Indian who invented a system of writing for his people in the early nineteenth century and after whom the giant sequoia trees and Sequoia National Park were named.