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History - American Genre
Books in the History - American genre:
In the Valley (1890)
Author(s):
Harold Frederic
Illustrator(s):
Howard Pyle
The True Story Book (1893)
True stories of adventure. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang
Illustrator(s):
H. J. Ford
Et al
In Old New York (1894)
An account of Manhattan's history extending from the arrival of Dutch colonists in the early 1600s through the late nineteenth century.
Author(s):
Thomas A. Janvier
Illustrator(s):
Howard Pyle
Janice Meredith (1899)
Just before the American Revolution, a woman is courted by British and American soldiers. In between love triangles the heroine, Janice Meredith also helps George Washington and Paul Revere.
Author(s):
Paul Leicester Ford
Illustrator(s):
Howard Pyle
First Across the Continent (1901)
The first popular account of the Lewis and Clark expedition from 1804 to 1806.
Author(s):
Noah Brooks
Illustrator(s):
Ernest Seton Thompson
Et al
The Struggle for a Continent (1902)
Author(s):
Pelham Edgar, Ph.D.
Francis Parkman
Illustrator(s):
Howard Pyle
Smouldering Fires (1905)
A story of the eruption of Mount Pelee on May 8, 1902 on the Island of Martinique in the French Antilles which killed more than 30,000 people.
Author(s):
Evelyn Everett-Green
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
The Strange Story Book (1913)
A collection or stories, some of them true, mostly fictitious. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang
Illustrator(s):
H. J. Ford
The Drums of the 47th (1914)
Author(s):
Robert J. Burdette
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
With Cortes the Conqueror (1917)
Author(s):
Virginia Watson
Illustrator(s):
Frank Schoonover
History Stories for Primary Grades (1919)
An elementary school reader. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
John Walter Wayland
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
History Stories for Primary Grades: Indiana Edition (1920)
Author(s):
John Walter Wayland
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Howard Pyle’s Book of the American Spirit (1923)
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Howard Pyle
A School History of the United States (1924)
A history of the United States for school children. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Martha Tucker Stephenson
Nathaniel Wright Stephenson
Illustrator(s):
Howard Pyle
N. C. Wyeth
Et al
The Oregon Trail Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life (1925)
Author(s):
Francis Parkman
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Juan and Juanita (1926)
Juan and Juanita and their dog Amigo are kidnapped by Comanches and held captive for four years until they make their escape and trek three hundred miles home.
Author(s):
Frances Courtenay Baylor
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Life on the Mississippi (1927)
Mark Twain’s account of his time as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River.
Author(s):
Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
Frank Schoonover
Walter Stewart
Drums (1928)
This is the story of Johnny Fraser and his part in the Revolutionary War in the South.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
James Boyd
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Daniel Boone (1931)
A brief biography of the pioneering backwoodsman.
Author(s):
Unknown
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Hail Columbia (1931)
A history of the United States of America from its discovery to 1931.
Author(s):
Marie A. Lawson
Illustrator(s):
Marie A. Lawson