A biography of the first governor of the Plymouth Colony who served in that office for thirty years and greatly influenced the development of the community.

A brief biography of the seventeenth-century French explorer who traveled the entire length of the Mississippi and took possession of all its surrounding territory for France.

A biography of the Portuguese prince who made sailing safer by his navigational maps and who designed the caravel--a type of sailing ship.

Roger Williams

by William Jay Jacobs

Published 1 January 1975
A biography of the founder of Rhode Island, often called the "father of religious liberty in America."

Hernando Cortes

by William Jay Jacobs

Published 1 January 1974
A biography of Spanish adventurer, Cortes, who conquered Mexico in the early 1500's thus ending the Aztec nation.