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KATE DICKINSON SWEETSER

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

FOREWORD

TEN AMERICAN GIRLS FROM HISTORY

POCAHONTAS: THE INDIAN GIRL OF THE VIRGINIA FOREST

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

MOLLY PITCHER: THE BRAVE GUNNER OF THE BATTLE OF MONMOUTH

FOOTNOTE:

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

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

CLARA BARTON: "THE ANGEL OF THE BATTLEFIELDS"

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

LOUISA M. ALCOTT: AUTHOR OF "LITTLE WOMEN"

CLARA MORRIS: THE GIRL WHO WON FAME AS AN ACTRESS

ANNA DICKINSON: THE GIRL ORATOR

ACKNOWLEDGMENT