Shortly after the Civil War a black family travels to Kansas to take advantage of the free land offered through the Homestead Act. The Muldie boys and their father have come a long way to Kansas to look for land. They build a dugout house, live through a hard winter and are saved from starvation by a band of Osage Indians. Spring comes, and Daddy moves to find a better home for them. The three brothers are left to fend for themselves, and when at...

Sent home alone for misbehaving in church, Tommy discovers that his house is a station on the underground railroad.

A view of the incidents at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, which were the start of the American Revolution, as seen from the eyes of George, a British drummer boy.

A young Indian sets out to hunt on Manhattan island and discovers some strange people with white faces.

An easy-to-read account of the birth of Parícutin volcano in the field of a poor Mexican farmer.