Record details

• ISBN: 1563086115
• ISBN: 9781563086113
• Physical Description: x, 142 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
• Publisher: Englewood, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited, 1999.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 132-139) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Mochi -- Shadow on the wall -- Medal and the lady: the Mary Edwards Walker story -- Ten interesting facts about the Congressional Medal of Honor -- Nathan's legacy -- Dempsey shorts -- Mother Maggard -- Silas Soule: a forgotten hero of Sand Creek -- Theodosia: a lady lost -- Jules Bledsoe: the voice -- Charles Gates Dawes: he won the Nobel Peace Prize and wrote a song that went to the Top 40 -- Ten interesting facts about presidents and vice-presidents -- Day Doris Miller became a man -- First shots fired on December 7, 1941 -- Billie and Patches -- Sam Antonio: the last Acoma to survive -- Shoichi Yokoi: the last Japanese soldier -- Last officer to surrender -- One extraordinary event: the day they hanged an elephant -- Hartleypoole chimp incident -- Governor Ralph Carr: a man of compassion -- Interesting facts about the internment camps -- Jeannette Pickering Rankin: the lady from Montana -- Quotes from Jeannette Pickering Rankin -- Villains: Lavinia Fisher -- Footnotes in crime -- Those weren't ladies, they were pirates: Anne Bonny and Mary Read -- Pirate briefs -- Jonita -- Jóse Marti: his eloquence is still heard -- Quotes from Jóse Marti -- Daisy Anderson: "I just want people to get along with each other" -- Doctor Victor Westphall and Angel Fire.

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Subject:

Heroes > United States > Biography.
Women heroes > United States > Biography.
Youth library services.
Young adult library services.
United States > Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.