Do you know the true story of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Buffalo Bill, Daniel Boone and other famous characters of the pioneer days? In our histories at school we read only of their deeds as men and women. But if we look back, we can see that these heroes and heroines laid the foundation of their greatness as boys and girls, so that when the crises in their grown-up life came, they were ready. In BOYS AND GIRLS OF PIONEER DAYS, then, children meet the characters they read about and see the events that fill their history books through the eyes of the youngsters of their own age who lived in those days.

From the dust jacket of the Grosset and Dunlap edition