Description: Four compact biographies of American pioneers. These depictions of Daniel Boone's settling of Kentucky, Colonel George Rodgers Clarke's battles with the British during the Revolution, Davy Crockett's defense of the Alamo, and Kit Carson's exploration of Oregon, California and other portions of the West) can serve as a starting point for the study of the United States' Westward expansion.

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1. DANIEL BOONE

2. Childhood

3. A Young Hunter

4. Westward Ho!

5. A Second Robinson Crusoe

6. East Again

7. Preparing the Way

8. The New Kentucky Home

9. Indian Hostilities

10. Boone Made Prisoner

11. Captivity and Escape

12. Preparations for the Siege

13. The Siege of Boonesborough

14. Dark Days

15. Old Age

16. GEORGE ROGERS CLARK

17. Boyhood and Youth

18. “Kentucki”

19. The Conquest of Illinois

20. Colonel Clark and the Indians

21. Indian Treaties

22. Vincennes

23. Through the "Drowned Land"

24. The Capture of Fort Sackville

25. The Delaware Indians

26. Back in Kentucky

27. Lochry's Defeat

28. Border Troubles

29. After the War

30. DAVID CROCKETT

31. A Neglected Child

32. A Homesick Boy

33. A Runaway

34. A Hired Hand

35. A Householder

36. A Soldier

37. A Leading Citizen

38. A Bear Hunter

39. A Congressman

40. A Traveler

41. A Daring Adventurer

42. A Hero of the Alamo

43. KIT CARSON

44. Preparation

45. Getting a Start

46. Trapping in California

47. The Second Expedition

48. Free Trapping

49. Fair and Camp

50. Hunting in the Rockies

51. Carson and Fremont

52. West with Fremont

53. Again on the March

54. At Home