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ch. 1. Mochi -- ch. 2. Shadow on the wall -- ch. 3. Medal and the lady: the Mary Edwards Walker story -- ch. 4. Nathan's legacy -- Dempsey shorts -- ch. 5. Mother Maggard -- ch. 6. Silas Soule: a forgotten hero of Sand Creek -- ch. 7. Theodosia: a lady lost -- ch. 8. Jules Bledsoe: the voice -- ch. 9. Charles Gates Dawes: he won the Nobel Peace Prize and wrote a song that went to the Top 40 -- Ten interesting facts about presidents and vice-presidents -- ch. 10. Day Doris Miller became a man -- First shots fired on December 7, 1941 -- ch. 11. Billie and Patches -- ch. 12. Sam Antonio: the last Acoma to survive -- ch. 13. Shoichi Yokoi: the last Japanese soldier -- Last officer to surrender -- ch. 14. One extraordinary event: the day they hanged an elephant -- Hartleypoole chimp incident -- ch. 15. Governor Ralph Carr: a man of compassion -- Interesting facts about the internment camps -- ch. 16. Jeannette Pickering Rankin: the lady from Montana -- Quotes from Jeannette Pickering Rankin -- ch. 17. Villains: Lavinia Fisher -- Footnotes in crime -- ch. 18. Those weren't ladies, they were pirates: Anne Bonny and Mary Read -- Pirate briefs -- ch. 19. Jonita -- ch. 20. Jóse Marti: his eloquence is still heard -- Quotes from Jóse Marti -- ch. 21. Daisy Anderson: "I just want people to get along with each other" -- ch. 22. Doctor Victor Westphall and Angel Fire. |
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