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Title: Ten American Girls From History

Author: Kate Dickinson Sweetser

Release Date: January 6, 2007 [EBook #20297]

Language: English

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TEN AMERICAN GIRLS
FROM HISTORY

BY
KATE DICKINSON SWEETSER

AUTHOR OF
"TEN BOYS FROM HISTORY"
"TEN BOYS FROM DICKENS"
ETC.

ILLUSTRATED BY
GEORGE ALFRED WILLIAMS

[Illustration: Publisher's device]

HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK AND LONDON

[Illustration: MOLLY PITCHER]

TEN AMERICAN GIRLS FROM HISTORY

Copyright, 1917, by Harper & Brothers
Printed in the United States of America
Published October, 1917

TO
EDITH BOLLING WILSON

"THE FIRST LADY OF THE LAND"

A DESCENDANT OF POCAHONTAS, THE INDIAN
GIRL OF THE VIRGINIA FOREST WHO LINKS
THE FLOWER OF EARLY AMERICA WITH
THE "NEW FREEDOM" OF TODAY, THIS
BOOK IS CORDIALLY DEDICATED.

CONTENTS

PAGE

FOREWORD xi

POCAHONTAS: THE INDIAN GIRL OF THE VIRGINIA FOREST 1

DOROTHY QUINCY: THE GIRL OF COLONIAL DAYS WHO HEARD
THE FIRST GUN FIRED FOR INDEPENDENCE 36

MOLLY PITCHER: THE BRAVE GUNNER OF THE BATTLE OF
MONMOUTH 71

ELIZABETH VAN LEW: THE GIRL WHO RISKED ALL THAT SLAVERY
MIGHT BE ABOLISHED AND THE UNION PRESERVED 86

IDA LEWIS: THE GIRL WHO KEPT LIME ROCK BURNING; A HEROIC
LIFE-SAVER 125

CLARA BARTON: "THE ANGEL OF THE BATTLEFIELDS" 143

VIRGINIA REED: MIDNIGHT HEROINE OF THE PLAINS IN PIONEER
DAYS OF AMERICA