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"Did they tell you stories about the saints of old,
stories about their faith?
Stories like that make a boy grow bold,
stories like that make a man walk straight..."
—Rich Mullins, Boy Like Me, Man Like You

Stories about people have a way of affecting us in ways other stories can't. The Bible is primarily stories about people, and it is through these multiple biographies that we understand human nature, the history of redemption, and even to a great extent God Himself. The purpose behind any other biography is largely the same—to help us understand what it means to be human from the examples (sometimes even the bad examples) of those who have preceded us.

The biographies we have chosen for this section represent those of great leaders in history, social and military heroes, and Christian saints past and present who struggled to conform their lives to Christ's perfect example. We have avoided for the most part biographies of history's villains and chronic immoralists, not because they aren't interesting but because they don't represent lives worthy of imitation. We've also decided not to focus on athletes, actors, and celebrities, unless they've made important contributions outside their fields. That's not to say everyone found here was above reproach or even a Christian, but they all demonstrated real human virtues for which they are remembered.

Biographies are also useful for better understanding of a given historical period. While history books can provide good overviews of a period or events, the intimate detail of a good biography can better illustrate a time period and what it was like to be alive then. This also serves to demonstrate the universality of human nature, that people will behave basically the same during any given period and in any given place. Sometimes we get the impression that people of the past, especially people like missionaries and ministers, were somehow more pious than we are—the personal view offered by a good biography dispels this myth and offers encouragement that not even the best men and women are any closer to perfection than we are.

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	All That Glitters The Men and Women of the Gold and Silver Rushes Perspectives on History Series by Phyllis Raybin Emert from History Compass Historical Non-fiction for 6th-9th grade in California (Location: HISA-19CGR)
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	Daniel Boone, Wilderness Scout Junior Deluxe Editions by Stewart Edward White, illustrated by Henry C. Pitz from Grosset & Dunlap Biography for 4th-7th grade in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF)
	Daniel Boone, Wilderness Scout The Life Story and True Adventures of the Great Hunter Long Knife by Stewart Edward White, illustrated by James Daugherty from Garden City Books Biography for 4th-7th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
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	Explorers, Missionaries, and Trappers by Kieran Doherty from Oliver-Nelson Books for 7th-9th grade in Western Expansion (1800-1898) (Location: HISA-19WES) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	In Their Own Words: Lewis and Clark by George Sullivan from Scholastic Inc. for 4th-6th grade in Lewis & Clark Expedition (1801-1803) (Location: HISA-19L&C) $3.00 (1 in stock)
	Jed Smith, Young Western Explorer by Olive W. Burt from Bobbs-Merril Co for 3rd-6th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	Jim Bridger, Mountain Man by Stanley Vestal from Bison Books in Biographies (Location: BIO)
	Joe Meek Man of the West by Shannon Garst from Julian Messner for 4th-7th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	John Charles Frémont by Charles W. Maynard 1^st edition from PowerKids Press for 4th-6th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO) $2.00 (1 in stock)
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	Kit Carson A Discovery Book by Nardi Reeder Campion, illustrated by Shannon Stirnweis from Garrard Publishing Company for 3rd-6th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	Kit Carson and the Wild Frontier Landmark #53 by Ralph Moody, illustrated by Stanley Galli from Random House for 5th-8th grade in American Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAND)
	Kit Carson and the Wild Frontier Landmark #53 by Ralph Moody 2005 printing from University of Nebraska for 5th-8th grade in Pioneer & Frontier Life (Location: HISA-19PIO)
	Kit Carson: Folk Hero and Man by Noel B. Gerson from Doubleday & Company for 4th-8th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $7.50 (1 in stock)
	Lewis & Clark Expedition Spencer Press Landmark #5 (RH#15) by Richard L. Neuberger from Spencer Press for 5th-8th grade in American Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAND)
	Luck of the La Verendryes by Lyn Harrington from Thomas Nelson Publishers for 7th-12th grade in Western Expansion (1800-1898) (Location: HISA-19WES)
	Meriwether Lewis Off the Edge of the Map Heroes of History by Geoff & Janet Benge from Emerald Books Biography for 4th-7th grade in Heroes of History (Location: BIO-BENGE) $11.99
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	Path to the Pacific The Story of Sacagawea Sterling Point Books by Neta Lohnes Frazier from Sterling Publishing Co. for 5th-9th grade in Lewis & Clark Expedition (1801-1803) (Location: HISA-19L&C)
	Picture Book of Sacagawea by David A. Adler, illustrated by Dan Brown from Holiday House for 1st-3rd grade in Biographies (Location: BIO) $8.99
	Sacagawea: American Pathfinder Childhood of Famous Americans by Meryl Henderson from Aladdin Paperbacks Biography for 3rd-6th grade in Childhood of Famous Americans (Location: BIO-COFA) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Sacajawea by Joseph Bruchac from Graphia Biography for 3rd-7th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO) $10.99
	Story of Davy Crockett Grosset & Dunlap Signature #3 by Enid LaMonte Meadowcroft, illustrated by C. B. Falls from Grosset & Dunlap Biography for 4th-8th grade in Grosset & Dunlap Signature Books (Location: VIN-SIG)
	Story of Sacajawea Guide to Lewis and Clark by Della Rowland from Yearling Biography for 4th-6th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO) $6.99 $3.00 (1 in stock)
	Stout-Hearted Seven Orphaned on the Oregon Trail Sterling Point by Neta Lohnes Frazier from Sterling Publishing Co. Non-fiction/Biography for 5th-9th grade in Oregon Trail (Location: HISA-19OR) $4.50 (1 in stock)
	They Saw America First Our First Explorers and What They Saw by John Bakeless, Katherine Bakeless from J.B. Lippincott Co. for 4th-9th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	True Adventures of Grizzly Adams by Robert McClung from Beech Tree Books Biography for 4th-7th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO)
	We Claimed This Land Portland's Pioneer Settlers by Eugene E. Snyder from Binford & Mort Publishing for 9th-Adult in Pacific States (Location: HISV-PNW)
	Who Was Sacagawea? Who Was?...Series by Judith Bloom Fradin, Dennis Brindell Fradin from Grosset & Dunlap Biography for 3rd-6th grade in Who Was? biographies (Location: BIO-WHO)
	Zebulon Pike Young America's Frontier Scout Lives to Remember by Bern Keating, illustrated by Frank Aloise from G.P. Putnam's Sons for 4th-8th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)

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