His Gallery of great Americans series. Frontiersmen of America
Description
A brief biography of the nineteenth-century trapper, scout, and explorer who helped open the West to settlers.
How the series evolves
Books in this Series
Jim Bridger the mountain man
A brief biography of the nineteenth-century trapper, scout, and explorer who helped open the West to settlers.
Francis Marion, Swamp Fox
A brief biography of the southern plantation owner whose knowledge of the swamps helped keep the Revolution alive in the South.
Daniel Boone in the wilderness
A brief biography of the famed frontiersman who led settlers into Kentucky, was elected to the Kentucky assembly, and lost his own land there in disastrous legal battles.
Davy Crockett, frontier adventurer
A brief biography of the Tennessee woodsman renowned as a hunter, scout, politician, and soldier.
Buffalo Bill of the Wild West
A brief biography of the frontiersman whose many careers during a lifetime of ups and downs included Pony Express rider, Indian fighter, scout, and star of the Wild West Show.