EDISON, THOMAS A. 238 FARRAGUT, DAVID G. 282 FIELD, CYRUS W. 236 FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN 126 FULTON, ROBERT 223 GRANT, ULYSSES S. 267 GREENE, NATHANAEL 176 HAMILTON, ALEXANDER 193 HENRY, PATRICK 142 HUDSON, HENRY 80 JACKSON, ANDREW 240 JEFFERSON, THOMAS 186 JONES, JOHN PAUL 181 LAFAYETTE, MARIE JEAN, MARQUIS DE 212 LA SALLE, ROBERT DE 100 LEE, ROBERT E. 277 LEIF THE LUCKY 7 LINCOLN, ABRAHAM 257 MCCORMICK, CYRUS 230 MACDONOUGH, THOMAS 204 MINUIT, PETER 84 MONTCALM, LOUIS, MARQUIS DE 136 MORSE, SAMUEL F. B. 233 OGLETHORPE, JAMES EDWARD 114 PENN, WILLIAM 109 PERRY, OLIVER HAZARD 204 PHILIP, KING OF WAMPANOAGS 118 POCAHONTAS 58 POLO, MARCO 13 RALEIGH, SIR WALTER 46 SCHUYLER, PHILIP 169 SMITH, CAPTAIN JOHN 51 STANDISH, MILES 62 STEPHENSON, GEORGE 220 STUYVESANT, PETER 89 WASHINGTON, GEORGE 156 WEBSTER, DANIEL 253 WHITNEY, ELI 226 WILLIAMS, ROGER 76 WINTHROP, JOHN, GOVERNOR 70 WOLFE, JAMES 136 BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES FROM AMERICAN HISTORY FOR THE FIFTH AND SIXTH GRADES Leif the Lucky From the northwestern coast of Europe projects the rock-ribbed Scandinavian peninsula. The scenery is grand and picturesque, but the soil is sterile and the climate severe. In this bleak, beautiful country and on the adjacent islands of the Baltic Sea, there lived, a thousand years ago, the people called the Norsemen or Northmen. Their houses were usually long wooden structures a hundred or two hundred feet in length. Sometimes these houses were divided into several rooms, but often the dwelling consisted of only one large hall or living-room. On the floor of stone or hard-trampled earth, was kindled a fire, the smoke from which found its way upward and out through the crevices of the high-pitched roof. On three sides of the room were built beds,--shelf-like structures of boards, with skins for bedding and blankets.