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Their names are a part of American history. Pocahontas was a Native American girl that saved the life of Captain John Smith during the early years of the Jamestown colony in Virginia. Defying her father, she risked everything and brought two worlds together in 1607. Nathan Hale was a popular Connecticut schoolteacher who became a daring spy during the Revolutionary War, only to be betrayed and executed in 1776. This volume based on acclaimed biographies by Elizabeth Eggleston Seelye and Jean Christie Root brings back to life two legends from different eras in American history. Published in one…mehr

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Their names are a part of American history. Pocahontas was a Native American girl that saved the life of Captain John Smith during the early years of the Jamestown colony in Virginia. Defying her father, she risked everything and brought two worlds together in 1607. Nathan Hale was a popular Connecticut schoolteacher who became a daring spy during the Revolutionary War, only to be betrayed and executed in 1776. This volume based on acclaimed biographies by Elizabeth Eggleston Seelye and Jean Christie Root brings back to life two legends from different eras in American history. Published in one volume for the first time and edited with additional biographical information material not published previously.
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Elizabeth Eggleston Seelye was a writer and biographer. She was born in December 1858 in Minnesota and died in November 1923 in Pennsylvania. Seelye was the daughter of well-known historian and novelist Edward Eggleston. She married Elwyn Seelye, founder of the New York State Historical Association in 1877. In addition to her biography of Pocahontas, Elizabeth Eggleston Seelye also wrote several other biographies on historical figures and was featured in popular magazines such as Harper's Bazaar over the years.