CONTENTS

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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[174]
Louisa M. Alcott: Author of "Little Women"[207]
Clara Morris: The Girl Who Won Fame as an Actress[236]
Anna Dickinson: The Girl Orator[271]