THE MARQUIS DE MONTCALM 225 THE DEATH OF GENERAL WOLFE 231 DANIEL BOONE, THE GREAT INDIAN FIGHTER OF KENTUCKY 233 COLONEL GEORGE ROGERS CLARK 241 LEWIS AND CLARK ON THEIR EXPEDITION INTO THE FAR WEST 249 DAVID CROCKETT, HERO OF THE ALAMO 259 ELI WHITNEY, INVENTOR OF THE COTTON GIN 267 WHITNEY’S FIRST COTTON GIN 268 ROBERT FULTON, INVENTOR OF THE STEAMBOAT 270 THE “CLERMONT,” FULTON’S FIRST STEAMBOAT 273 S. F. B. MORSE, INVENTOR OF THE TELEGRAPH 275 MORSE’S FIRST TELEGRAPH SOUNDER 277 CYRUS H. MCCORMICK, INVENTOR OF THE REAPER 280 MCCORMICK’S FIRST REAPER 281 ELIAS HOWE 283 HOWE’S FIRST SEWING MACHINE 284 THOMAS A. EDISON AND ONE OF HIS EARLY DYNAMOS 287 WASHINGTON’S FAREWELL TO HIS MOTHER 299 THE FIRST MEETING BETWEEN WASHINGTON AND HAMILTON 305 THE SIGNING OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE 312 GENERAL JACKSON AT THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS 319 CLAY, CALHOUN AND WEBSTER, “THE STATESMEN OF THE COMPROMISE” 321 THE BOY LINCOLN READING BY THE FIRELIGHT 328 GENERAL ULYSSES S. GRANT 333 LEE’S INVASION OF THE NORTH 343 FARRAGUT IN THE RIGGING AT THE BATTLE OF MOBILE BAY 351 THEODORE ROOSEVELT AS COLONEL OF THE ROUGH RIDERS 353 CLARA BARTON, “THE ANGEL OF THE BATTLEFIELD” 360 HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW 366 MIGHTY MEN OF LONG AGO MOSES, THE GREATEST LAW-GIVER, AND THE MEEKEST MAN Long ago in the land of Egypt there lived as slaves to the Egyptians a race of white people called the Hebrews. There were so many of them that the Egyptians began to be afraid that they would over-run the land. So the cruel king, or the Pharaoh, as he was called, commanded that all the baby boys of the slave race should be thrown into the River Nile. But one little child escaped this fate, for his poor slave mother disobeyed the king and hid her baby in her hut. When he was three months old, his mother was afraid she could not keep him quiet any longer. So she made a basket, and plastered it inside with pitch, so that it would be water-tight and float like a boat. Into this basket-boat she put her baby.