Book

Ying, Chris.

109 forgotten American heroes : plus nine or so villains / [created by Chris Ying and Brian McMullen].

New York, N.Y. : DK Pub., 2009.

175 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Photographs, graphics, and text bring to life the contributions, inventions, wisdom, savvy, and courage of 109 American originals, including Frank Epperson, the inventor of the popsicle, cereal creator John Harvey Kellogg, and Shamu, the killer whale who began her stay at the San Diego Sea World in 1965.

Heroes -- United States -- Miscellanea -- Juvenile literature.

United States -- Miscellanea -- Juvenile literature.

Trivia and miscellanea.

McMullen, Brian.

One hundred nine forgotten American heroes

One hundred and nine forgotten American heroes

McSweeney's American heroes

Includes index.

Beringia -- Deganawidah -- George Robert Twelves Hewes -- The Philadelphia Tea Party -- Sibyl Ludington -- David Bushnell -- Sarah Tarrant -- Lady Columbia -- Francis Hopkinson -- Molly Pitcher -- John Hanson -- Thomas Jefferson -- York -- Stephen Pleasonton -- Augustus Jackson -- Andrew Jackson -- Elijah P. Lovejoy -- Calvin Fairbank -- Henry Shoemaker -- Shoemaker again -- Hanson Crockett Gregory -- John Russell Bartlett -- James Marshall -- Allan Pinkerton -- Ephraim Bull -- Drummer boy -- James E. Hanger -- Charles Francis Adams -- Charles Colchester -- F.B. Fenby -- Christopher Sholes -- E.A. McIlhenny -- E.A. McIlhenny -- Chief Joseph -- Victoria Woodhull -- Levi Strauss -- Jumbo -- Nellie Bly -- Clark Stanley -- John Harvey Kellogg -- The hero sandwich -- Hugo Hercules -- Teddy Roosevelt -- Duke Kahanamoku -- Carl G. Fisher -- Garrett Morgan -- Stephen Mather -- Cher Ami -- Phog Allen -- Beulah Louise Henry -- Frank Epperson -- Richard Drew -- Charles Brannock -- Preservers of memorials -- Floretta McCutcheon -- Billy Tipton -- Labor unions -- Spam -- Josh Gibson -- Navajo code talkers -- Ferdinand Waldo Demara -- John Stapp -- Edwin Land -- Albert I -- Brownie Wise -- Elbert Botts -- Claudette Colvin -- Containerization -- Jesse Glover -- Lester Wunderman -- Harvey Ball -- Shamu -- Robert Propst -- Fast food -- Thompson & Calley -- Michael Collins -- John McConnell -- Raplph Baer -- Pasty Mink -- The barcode -- Michael Larson -- Mary Rodas -- Biosphere 2 -- Richard Jewell -- Marty Ravellette -- Pluto -- Bertha -- Everyday heroes.

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