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American Heritage Series
from Aladdin Books
These historical fiction books and fictionalized biographies are generally very well-written, exciting adventure stories! They give children history with personality and are highly recommended reading.
This series is unrelated to the excellent non-fiction historical books published by American Heritage magazine. Those titles can be seen here.
In the following list, dates in [brackets] are copyright dates. The information in {braces} describes the setting or character when those are not obvious from the title.
NOTE: I have made these notes only for titles that are in my own personal library.
Andy Jackson, Long Journey to the White House by Polly Angell [1956] {1767}
Back of Beyond by George Cory Franklin [1952]
The Bells of Carmel, Mission Days in California by Edith Blackburn [1954]
Big Bridge to Brooklyn, The Roebling Story by Frances Williams Brown [1956] {1867}
The Big Country, A Story of Alaska by Edward A Herron [1953] {1920}
The Captive Island by August William Derleth [1952]
Captured Words, The Story of a Great Indian by Frances Williams Browin [1954] {Sequoyah, 1770}
The Challengers, Oregon in the 1840's by Jo Lundy [1953]
Cherokee Strip, The Race for Land by Aileen Fisher [1956] {Oklahoma Land Run, 1893}
Cochise of Arizona, The Pipe of Peace is Broken by Oliver La Farge [1953]
The Country of the Hawk by August William Derleth [1952]
The Cowman's Kingdom by Edmund Collier [1952] {Montana-Wyoming, 1876}
Day of Glory, The Guns at Lexington and Concord by Philip Spencer [1955]
De Soto, Child of the Sun, The Search for Gold by William O. Steele [1956] {1539}
The Empire of Fur, Trading in the Lake Superior Region by August William Derleth [1953] {1823}
The Fighting Quaker, The Southern Campaigns of General Nathanael Green by Frank B. Latham [1953]
A Flag for Lafitte, The Story of the Battle of New Orleans by Frederick A. Lane [1954] {1814}
Gray Bonnets, In the Days of Roger Williams by Slater Brown [1954] {~1640}
Gray Riders, Jeb Stuart and His Men by Manly Wade Wellman [1954]
The Greatest Adventure, A Story of Jack London by Frederick A. Lane [1954] {San Francisco, sailing, literary biography, 1876}
Green Grows the Prairie, Arkansas in the 1890's by Charlie May Simon [1956]
Homestead of the Free, The Kansas Story by Aileen Fisher [1953] {1855}
Jed Smith, Trail Blazer by Frank B. Latham [1952]
King of the Clippers, Adventure on the High Seas by Edmund Collier [1955] {1852}
Ladd of the Lone Star by Allan R. Bosworth [1952] {Texas, 1835}
Land of Gray Gold, Lead Mining in Wisconsin by August Derleth [1954] {1840}
Let the Moon Go By, A Book of Tall Tales by Emma Gelders Sterne [1955]
Little Giant of Schenectady, A Story of Charles Steinmetz by Dorothy Markey [1956] {1865}
The Long Black Schooner, The Voyage of the Amistad by Emma Gelders Sterne [1953] {slave trade, 1839; this book was also published by Follett}
The Magnificent Mariner, An Early Story of John Paul Jones by Frederick A. Lane [1953]
Mark Twain, Adventures in Old Nevada by Blaise Lane [1956] {1835}
Medals for Morse, Artist and Inventor by Jean Lee Latham [1954] {Samuel Morse, 1791}
Men of Flight, Conquest of the Air by Charles Spain Verral [1954]
One Bit of Land, A Story of Imperial Valley by Edith H. Blackburn [1955]
Over-Mountain Boy by William O. Steele [1952] {North Carolina-Virginia, 1778}
Passage to Texas by Iris Vinton [1952] {1830}
Pat and the Iron Horse, New Americans in the 1840's by Polly Angell [1955]
Printer's Devil by Emma Gelders Sterne [1952] {Philadelphia, 1789}
Ranger's Ransom, A Story of Ticonderoga by Herbert Best [1953]
Return of the Alaskan, Mailboat in the Outpost by Edward Albert Herron [1955] {Alaska, early-mid 20th century}
River of Gold, Oregon and the Challenge of the Gold Rush by Gifford Paul Cheshire [1955]
Sons of the Big Muddy, Dakota Territory in the 1880's by Wilbur J. Granberg [1954]
The Story of Eli Whitney, Invention and Progress in the Young Nation by Jean Lee Latham [1953] {1765}
Timber! Logging in Michigan by Aileen Fisher [1955] {1884}
Wagon Wheels, A Story of the National Road by William A. Breyfogle [1956] {~1830}
Wheat Won't Wait by Adele Gutman Nathan [1952] {Cyrus McCormick, 1821}
Wildcat, the Seminole, A Story of the Florida War by Electa Clark [1956] {1835}
With Sword and Pen, The Adventures of Captain John Smith by Bradford Smith [1956] {1590}
