Hero tales from American life

This book of a hundred hero tales is drawn from the thousands of incidents of courage and bravery with which American history is inspired - tales that are close to the human heart and which bring with them the glow of manhood and womanhood. Not alone the heroism in great crises, but the tragic tests of courage in the average man and woman - the heroism of everyday life. It is not the intent of this book to record history or biography, but to tell true stories that grip the heart - stories of real Americans who have lived, and many of them died, under the American flag - the ensign of Liberty that makes heroes. There has been no desire to select or nominate the hundred most heroic characters in American history, but rather to relate a hundred thrilling incidents from American life, past and present, that make one proud to be an American.