True stories of the favorites sons and daughters of America for young people : containing full accounts of the lives and heroic deeds of about half a hundred illustrious men and women who have made our country great and our flag respected throughout the world : from the time of George and Mary Washington to Admiral Dewey and Clara Barton / prepared by a corps of distinguished writers, John S.C. Abbott, William Garnett, W.W. Birdsall, Edward S. Ellis, and others ; illustrated with magnificent full page photogravure portraits and a wealth of other fine engravings.