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American Girls Who Made History
| "Courage is not the absence of fear. It is acting in spite of it." —Mark Twain “Courage is grace under pressure.”—Ernest Hemingway How courageous are you? • Like Sacagawea, would you leave your relatives and travel thousands of miles through the wilderness to help strangers? • Like Abbie and Rebecca Bates, would you be brave enough to stand up to an entire army? • Like Emily and Mary Edmonson, would you leave behind your family and everyone you knew and loved for a chance to live free? • Like Belle Boyd, would you risk going to prison, getting shot at, possibly even getting killed, in order to save what you believe in? • Like Minnie Freeman, would you risk freezing to death yourself in order to save the lives of others? The young women featured in this collection of short stories possessed courage. They all lived during the 19th century. They were all Americans. Courage is the ability to do things which one finds frightening. Courage is also the ability to confront pain or uncertainty and to do the right thing in difficult circumstances. Branden Publishing Company www.brandenbooks.com ISBN 9780828324632 Paperback ISBN 9780828324649 E-Book Available from Amazon |