True stories covered:
The Michelangelo of Con Artists The slightly shady master brushstrokes of Joseph “The Yellow Kid” Weil
The Spell of the Russian "Night Witches" The stone-cold bravery and skill of the gutsy Russian female night bombers who flew puny antiquated biplanes to battle the fierce German Air Force
A "Misguided Fanatic" How abolitionist, John Brown, likely ignited an early beginning to the Civil War
"That Hated Scarlet" Heartfelt words in a young Charleston widow's diary tell a colorful colonial American story with a unique twist
"I Saw The Yankee" Teenage Susie King Taylor is swept into the Civil War during the siege on Fort Pulaski, when her uncle brings her to "the Yankees"
The "Inexhaustible" Gun Samuel Hancock is able to bluff his way to safety from an attack by angry Snohomish Indians, using an "inexhaustible gun"
"The Glorious Warpath" For over a decade on the warpath, White Bull can't get enough of the warrior life. Eventually that life will thrust him into history at the Battle of the Little Big Horn
Gleam in Their Eyes Sixteen-year-old Sarah Wister and young Major Stoddard hatch a scheme that helps relieve some of the tensions of the grueling Revolutionary War
That Long Twelve Hours Seventeen-year-old Emma LeConte witnesses the burning of her beloved Columbia, South Carolina during a seemingly endless twelve-hour nightmare
A Fine Day for Fine Day Cree War Chief, Fine Day, scatters his warriors on all sides of approaching Canadian soldiers, who are convinced they are encountering five hundred Indians. In reality they are "surrounded" by about fifty warriors
"Better Times Coming" Wisconsin farmer-turned-soldier, John Brobst, writes about the sieges of Vicksburg and Atlanta, and vows to his lady friend that there are better times coming
The Orphans of the Overland Trail The fateful 1844 Overland Trail journey of the Sager children
The Daring Nellie Bly The gutsy young lady who carved out a notch for women newspaper reporters in the 1800's
Every Step by Stealth Prison-camp escapee, John Collins Welch, faces hunger, a torch-wielding mob and a rebel guerrilla band as he takes "every step by stealth"
The Michelangelo of Con Artists The slightly shady master brushstrokes of Joseph “The Yellow Kid” Weil
The Spell of the Russian "Night Witches" The stone-cold bravery and skill of the gutsy Russian female night bombers who flew puny antiquated biplanes to battle the fierce German Air Force
A "Misguided Fanatic" How abolitionist, John Brown, likely ignited an early beginning to the Civil War
"That Hated Scarlet" Heartfelt words in a young Charleston widow's diary tell a colorful colonial American story with a unique twist
"I Saw The Yankee" Teenage Susie King Taylor is swept into the Civil War during the siege on Fort Pulaski, when her uncle brings her to "the Yankees"
The "Inexhaustible" Gun Samuel Hancock is able to bluff his way to safety from an attack by angry Snohomish Indians, using an "inexhaustible gun"
"The Glorious Warpath" For over a decade on the warpath, White Bull can't get enough of the warrior life. Eventually that life will thrust him into history at the Battle of the Little Big Horn
Gleam in Their Eyes Sixteen-year-old Sarah Wister and young Major Stoddard hatch a scheme that helps relieve some of the tensions of the grueling Revolutionary War
That Long Twelve Hours Seventeen-year-old Emma LeConte witnesses the burning of her beloved Columbia, South Carolina during a seemingly endless twelve-hour nightmare
A Fine Day for Fine Day Cree War Chief, Fine Day, scatters his warriors on all sides of approaching Canadian soldiers, who are convinced they are encountering five hundred Indians. In reality they are "surrounded" by about fifty warriors
"Better Times Coming" Wisconsin farmer-turned-soldier, John Brobst, writes about the sieges of Vicksburg and Atlanta, and vows to his lady friend that there are better times coming
The Orphans of the Overland Trail The fateful 1844 Overland Trail journey of the Sager children
The Daring Nellie Bly The gutsy young lady who carved out a notch for women newspaper reporters in the 1800's
Every Step by Stealth Prison-camp escapee, John Collins Welch, faces hunger, a torch-wielding mob and a rebel guerrilla band as he takes "every step by stealth"
