Extraordinary people in extraordinary times : heroes, sheroes, and villains / Patrick M. Mendoza.
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| Language: | English |
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Englewood, Colo. :
Libraries Unlimited,
1999.
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| Physical Description: | x, 142 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
Contents:
- ch. 1. Mochi
- ch. 2. Shadow on the wall
- ch. 3. Medal and the lady: the Mary Edwards Walker story
- ch. 4. Nathan's legacy
- Dempsey shorts
- ch. 5. Mother Maggard
- ch. 6. Silas Soule: a forgotten hero of Sand Creek
- ch. 7. Theodosia: a lady lost
- ch. 8. Jules Bledsoe: the voice
- ch. 9. Charles Gates Dawes: he won the Nobel Peace Prize and wrote a song that went to the Top 40
- Ten interesting facts about presidents and vice-presidents
- ch. 10. Day Doris Miller became a man
- First shots fired on December 7, 1941
- ch. 11. Billie and Patches
- ch. 12. Sam Antonio: the last Acoma to survive
- ch. 13. Shoichi Yokoi: the last Japanese soldier
- Last officer to surrender
- ch. 14. One extraordinary event: the day they hanged an elephant
- Hartleypoole chimp incident
- ch. 15. Governor Ralph Carr: a man of compassion
- Interesting facts about the internment camps
- ch. 16. Jeannette Pickering Rankin: the lady from Montana
- Quotes from Jeannette Pickering Rankin
- ch. 17. Villians: Lavinia Fisher
- Footnotes in crime
- ch. 18. Those weren't ladies, they were pirates: Anne Bonny and Mary Read
- Pirate briefs
- ch. 19. Jonita
- ch. 20. Jóse Marti: his eloquence is still heard
- Quotes from Jóse Marti
- ch. 21. Daisy Anderson: "I just want people to get along with each other"
- ch. 22. Doctor Victor Westphall and Angel Fire.