Cyrus West Field: Judson, Cyrus W. Field; Doubleday, Stories of Inventors, 3-16; Mowry, American Inventions and Inventors, 278-285.
Cyrus H. McCormick: Brooks, The Story of Corn, 218-220; Forman, Stories of Useful Inventions, 91-96; Sanford, The Story of Agriculture in the United States, 144-149.
Elias Howe: Hubert, Inventors, 99-110.
THE MEN WHO WON TEXAS, THE OREGON COUNTRY, AND CALIFORNIA
SAM HOUSTON, HERO OF SAN JACINTO
Houston among the Cherokees
142. Sam Houston. Young Houston was born of Scotch-Irish parents, in Virginia (1793). His father had fought under General Morgan in the Revolution. Sam Houston did not have much schooling, and when but thirteen his family moved to east Tennessee. Made angry by his older brother, he left home and went to live with the Cherokee Indians. He liked the wild life of the Indians and took part with the Indian boys in their pastimes of hunting, fishing, and playing at games.