Name/Title
A Book of AmericansEntry/Object ID
2025.007.1Description
Stephen Vincent Benet, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning "John Brown's Body" and his wife, Rosemary Carr, contributer to the New Yorker, etc., have written fifty-six verses about famous American men and women from Columbus to Woodrow Wilson. Illustrated by Charles Child.
Entries include:
Christopher Columbus
Indian
Hernando De Soto
Peregrine White and Virginia Dare
Pocahontas
Miles Standish
Pilgrims and Puritans
Peter Stuyvesant
Southern Ships and Settlers
Cotton Mather
Captain Kidd
French Pioneers
Oliver De Lancey
George Washington
John Paul Jones
Abigail Adams
John Adams
Benjamin Franklin
Benedict Arnold
Thomas Jefferson
Alexander Hamilton
Aaron Burr
Johnny Appleseed
Lewis and Clark
Dolly Madison
James Monroe
John Quincy Adams
Andrew Jackson
Zachary Taylor
John James Audubon
Nancy Hanks
Daniel Boone
Crawford Long and William Morton
Sam Houston
Western Wagons
Clipper Ships and Captains
James Buchanan
Crazy Horse
Stonewall Jackson
Abraham Lincoln
Negro Spirituals
Ulysses S. Grant
Robert E. Lee
David Farragut
Clara Barton
Daniel Drew
Jesse James
Grover Cleveland
P.T. Barnum
Walter Reed
Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright
Robert E. Peary
Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
U.S.A.Collection
Local AuthorsBook Details
Author
Benet, Rosemary and Stephen VincentEdition
FirstPublisher
Farrar & Rinehart, Inc.Date Published
1933Date Printed
1933Publication Language
EnglishCall No.
920 Benet