American Courage: Remarkable True Stories Exhibiting the Bravery That Has Made Our Country Great Book

1	The pilgrims' farewell	3
2	The decimation and survival of Plymouth Colony	7
3	Mrs. Rowlandson's captivity	10
4	Ben Franklin - on the lam at age 17, homeless, jobless, and nigh penniless	18
5	George Washington's winter journey to warn the French	28
6	Daniel Boone discovers Kentucky and incessant warfare	32
7	The Boston Tea Party	49
8	Surrender - "in the name of the great Jehovah and the Continental Congress"	54
9	The Declaration of Independence - "we must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately"	58
10	Washington crosses the Delaware - "victory or death"	64
11	Clark's secret march on Vincennes, 1778	70
12	A pioneer settler's hardships	81
13	William Cooper saves a town	94
14	The hazards of floating down the Ohio River	98
15	American privateer and British man-of-war clash	106
16	Davy Crockett reports from inside the Alamo	118
17	Sam Houston, with seven hundred half-fed, half-clad, half-armed men, declares, "we go to conquer" Texas!	131
18	Andrew Jackson's duel to the death	138
19	Fighting belly to belly with a grizzly bear	145
20	All hell broke loose right under the parson's nose	150
21	The forty-niners : broken hearts and empty pockets	154
22	Mark Twain on the daring of a Mississippi pilot	159
23	A fourteen-year-old boy rides for the Pony Express	164
24	The escape of a female slave	169
25	Quick-witted Mrs. Fisher saves her husband from Quantrill's raiders	180
26	Pickett's charge at Gettysburg	194
27	Saving the regimental colors	201
28	"Tell him he must die" : army nurse Louisa May Alcott comforts a dying soldier	204
29	"Portugee" Phillips's desperate ride	215
30	Dull knife's last fight	219
31	Nighttime stampede	225
32	Desperado with two cocked, smoking pistols threatens Teddy Roosevelt	233
33	Shoot-out with the marshal	237
34	Saved by cowboys	245
35	Earthquake pulverizes San Francisco; fires spread; banker struggles to survive	251
36	Sergeant York - "the terminator" in World War I	261
37	Five aviators die trying to cross the Atlantic Ocean - then came Charles Lindbergh	273
38	Jimmy Doolittle's daylight raid over Tokyo	280
39	Wanted : an elegant female spy to bribe or seduce top officials at Nazi-controlled, Vichy French Embassy	288
40	Emigre physicist Enrico Fermi tests the precursor to the atomic bomb in a Chicago squash court	301
41	D-day : World War II	309
42	Sniper fight on Okinawa	321
43	The perils of civil rights for nine Little Rock students	328
44	Roy Benavidez, Vietnam superman	337
45	Astronauts rocket to the moon	346
46	September 11, 2001 : the passengers counterattack the hijackers on United Flight 93	352