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1) James Fenimore Cooper, Leatherstocking boy

Author

Winders, Gertrude Hecker

Series

Childhood of famous Americans volume 30

Publisher

Bobbs-Merrill

Pub. Date

1951

2) Ethan Allen, Green Mountain boy

Author

Winders, Gertrude Hecker

Series

Childhood of famous Americans

Publisher

Bobbs-Merrill

Pub. Date

[c1954]

3) Walter Reed: boy who wanted to know

Author

Higgins, Helen Boyd

Series

Childhood of famous Americans volume 96

Publisher

Bobbs-Merrill Co

Pub. Date

[1958]

4) Israel Putnam, fearless boy

Author

Stevenson, Augusta

Series

Childhood of famous Americans

Publisher

Bobbs-Merrill

Pub. Date

[1959]

Description

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A biography of an American patriot who fought in both the French and Indian and Revolutionary Wars, describing his boyhood and youth on the Massachusetts frontier.

5) Kit Carson, boy trapper

Author

Stevenson, Augusta

Series

Childhood of famous Americans

Publisher

Bobbs-Merrill

Pub. Date

[1962]

Description

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The boyhood of the frontier trapper, hunter, Indian fighter, scout, and soldier.

6) Myles Standish, adventurous boy

Author

Stevenson, Augusta

Series

Childhood of famous Americans

Publisher

Bobbs-Merrill

Pub. Date

[1962]

Description

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The boyhood of the Englishman, a Separatist, who helped the Pilgrims establish the first English colony in America, at Plymouth.

7) Nathanael Greene, independent boy

Author

Peckham, Howard Henry

Series

Childhood of famous Americans

Publisher

Bobbs-Merrill

Pub. Date

c1963

Description

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The story of the Quaker boyhood in which young Nat learned the principles that guided his career as a soldier-patriot in the Revolution.

8) John Burroughs, boy of field and stream

Author

Frisbee, Lucy Post

Series

Childhood of famous Americans

Publisher

Bobbs-Merrill

Pub. Date

c1964

9) Andrew Carnegie: young steelmaker

Author

Henry, Joanne Landers

Series

Childhood of famous Americans

Publisher

Bobbs-Merrill

Pub. Date

[1966]

10) Ethel Barrymore: girl actress

Author

Newman, Shirlee Petkin

Series

Childhood of famous Americans

Publisher

Bobbs-Merrill

Pub. Date

1966

11) John Smith: Jamestown boy

Author

Barton, Thomas F

Series

Childhood of famous Americans

Publisher

Bobbs-Merril

Pub. Date

[1966]

12) Vilhjalmur Stefansson, young Arctic explorer

Author

Myers, Hortense

Series

Childhood of famous Americans

Publisher

Bobbs-Merrill

Pub. Date

[1966]

13) Adlai Stevenson, young ambassador

Author

Ward, Martha Eads

Series

Childhood of famous Americans

Publisher

Bobbs-Merrill

Pub. Date

1967

Description

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Biography of Adlai Stevenson, statesman, scholar, and ambassador to the United Nations.

14) Alvin C. York: young marksman

Author

Weddle, Ethel H

Series

Childhood of famous Americans

Publisher

Bobbs-Merrill

Pub. Date

[1967]

Description

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The life story of a Tennessee Mountain man and expert marksman who received a Medal of Honor for his capture of 132 German prisoners in World War I. Concentrates on his boyhood and youth.

15) Robert Frost, boy with promises to keep

Author

Wilson, Ellen Janet Cameron

Series

Childhood of famous Americans

Publisher

Bobbs-Merrill

Pub. Date

c1967

Description

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Recounts the boyhood of America's famous poet, Robert Frost, who knew from experience how to build fences, pick apples, and swing birches long before he wrote about them.

16) Robert Todd Lincoln, President's boy

Author

Anderson, LaVere

Series

Childhood of famous Americans

Publisher

Bobbs-Merrill

Pub. Date

[1967]

Description

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Biography of Lincoln's precocious son, Robert, and his childhood escapades in Illinois and the White House.

17) Clyde Beatty: boy animal trainer

Author

Wilkie, Katharine Elliott

Series

Childhood of famous Americans

Publisher

Bobbs-Merrill

Pub. Date

[1968]

Description

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Concentrates on the boyhood and youth of Clyde Beatty as he ventured into situations that helped him become a famous animal trainer and circus owner.

18) William H. McGuffey: boy reading genius

Author

Williams, Barbara

Series

Childhood of famous Americans

Publisher

Bobbs-Merrill

Pub. Date

[1968]

Description

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A biography, concentrating on the boyhood, of the nineteenth-century educator whose series of six Eclectic Readers taught many generations of Americans to read.

19) Virgil I. Grissom: boy astronaut

Author

Chappell, Carl L

Series

Childhood of famous Americans

Publisher

Bobbs-Merrill

Pub. Date

[c1971]

Description

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A biography stressing the childhood of one of the United States' first seven astronauts.

20) Harry S. Truman: Missouri farm boy

Author

Hudson, Wilma J

Series

Childhood of famous Americans

Publisher

Bobbs-Merrill

Pub. Date

[1973]

Description

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A biography stressing the childhood of the Missouri farm boy who became the thirty-third President.

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1) James Fenimore Cooper, Leatherstocking boy

2) Ethan Allen, Green Mountain boy

3) Walter Reed: boy who wanted to know

4) Israel Putnam, fearless boy

5) Kit Carson, boy trapper

6) Myles Standish, adventurous boy

7) Nathanael Greene, independent boy

8) John Burroughs, boy of field and stream

9) Andrew Carnegie: young steelmaker

10) Ethel Barrymore: girl actress

11) John Smith: Jamestown boy

12) Vilhjalmur Stefansson, young Arctic explorer

13) Adlai Stevenson, young ambassador

14) Alvin C. York: young marksman

15) Robert Frost, boy with promises to keep

16) Robert Todd Lincoln, President's boy

17) Clyde Beatty: boy animal trainer

18) William H. McGuffey: boy reading genius

19) Virgil I. Grissom: boy astronaut

20) Harry S. Truman: Missouri farm boy

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