
Hero Tales from History
Smith Burnham
1922
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Courage, told as a story rather than a lesson. Burnham gathers heroic episodes from across the world's past, the stands, the rescues, the long odds and the refusals to run, and tells each one for the sake of the telling. Written for young readers by a man who understood that a good deed only lands if the danger is real.
62 chapters
- 1Preface3m
- 2Moses, The Greatest Law-giver, and the Meekest Man9m
- 3David, The Giant-killer King6m
- 4Homer, The Hero Poet of Ancient Greece8m
- 5Socrates, The "Grand Old Man" of Greece7m
- 6Alexander, The Boy Who Conquered the World7m
- 7Four Familiar Sayings of Julius Caesar11m
- 8The Christmas Crowning of Charlemagne8m
- 9Alfred, The Greatest of the Saxon Kings8m
- 10How William of Normandy Conquered a Kingdom10m
- 11Lion-hearted Richard and Wolf-hearted John8m
- 12Joan of Arc and the Lilies of France10m
- 13Shakespeare, The Greatest Maker of Plays5m
- 14How Cromwell Changed Places with the King7m
- 15Napoleon, The Corsican Boy Who Ruled Europe12m
- 16Nelson, The Hero of Trafalgar12m
- 17Columbus, the Map-maker Who Found a New World12m
- 18Magellan, The Man of the Straits11m
- 19Cortes, The Conqueror12m
- 20De Soto, A Gold Hunter in Southern Swamps12m
- 21Sir Francis Drake, England's First Great Sailor13m
- 22Sir Walter Raleigh, The Favorite of Good Queen Bess10m
- 23Henry Hudson, The Man Who Put Himself on the Map8m
- 24La Salle And The Mouth of The Mississippi12m
- 25Livingstone, The White Man of the Dark Continent22m
- 26Peary, A Hero of the Great White North13m
- 27John Smith, The Captain of Many Adventures9m
- 28Champlain, The Father of New France19m
- 29Myles Standish, The Brave Little Captain of Plymouth19m
- 30John Winthrop, A Puritan Maker of Massachusetts13m
- 31Roger Williams, A Minister Who Lived the Golden Rule7m
- 32Lord Baltimore, Calvert and Claiborne, The Three Fathers of Maryland10m
- 33William Penn, The Founder of Pennsylvania7m
- 34Patrick Henry, The "Firebrand of the Revolution"6m
- 35Nathan Hale, Who Spoke the Bravest Words in History15m
- 36Lafayette, The Boy Hero of Two Worlds12m
- 37The Immortal Reply of John Paul Jones17m
- 38General Marion, The Carolina "Swamp Fox"11m
- 39Wolfe and Montcalm, The Rival Heroes of Quebec19m
- 40Daniel Boone, The Great Indian Fighter of Kentucky13m
- 41George Rogers Clark, The Young Hero with a Great Idea13m
- 42Lewis and Clark, Two Adventurers in the Far West18m
- 43Davy Crockett, The Hero of the Alamo15m
- 44How Eli Whitney Made Cotton King6m
- 45Fulton's Folly7m
- 46How Morse Sent Letters by Lightning8m
- 47Cyrus H. M'cormick and the Story of the Reaper6m
- 48Elias Howe and His Sewing Machine4m
- 49Edison, The Wizard of Many Inventions9m
- 50Benjamin Franklin, The Boy Who Was Diligent in Business8m
- 51George Washington and His Mother8m
- 52Alexander Hamilton, The Orphan Boy from the West Indies13m
- 53Thomas Jefferson, The Father of Democracy8m
- 54Andrew Jackson, America's Most Popular Hero9m
- 55Webster, Clay, Calhoun, Three Great Champions in Congress11m
- 56The Kind Heart of Abraham Lincoln9m
- 57Ulysses S. Grant, The General Who Hated War15m
- 58The Noble Soul of Robert E. Lee11m
- 59Davy Farragut, The Hero of Mobile Bay11m
- 60The Strenuous Life of Roosevelt9m
- 61Clara Barton, "The Angel of the Battlefield"10m
- 62Henry W. Longfellow, The American Children's Poet10m
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