We Were There at the First Airplane Flight We Were There with the California Rancheros We Were There when Grant Met Lee at AppomattoxĬlayton Knight and Katherine Sturges Knight We Were There with Florence Nightingale in the Crimea We Were There at the Battle of Lexington and Concord We Were There at the Opening of the Erie Canal We Were There when Washington Won at Yorktown We Were There with Richard the Lionhearted in the Crusades We Were There with Jean Lafitte at New Orleans We Were There with Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys We Were There with the California Forty-Niners We Were There with the Mayflower Pilgrims We Were There with Byrd at the South Pole We Were There at the Battle of Gettysburg Three of the books are available from Lamppost Publishers and American Home School Publishers. The books were later reissued with hardbound picture covers (using the original dust jacket artwork), and softcover editions of some books became available in the 1970s. The original hardbound editions of the books were followed by several other printings, including editions for book clubs and libraries. Though written simply enough for young readers, they make interesting reading for boys and girls well into their teens. Each story is checked for factual accuracy by an outstanding authority on this particular phase of our history. We Were There books are easy to read and provide exciting, entertaining stories, based upon true historic events. The dust jackets of the original printings of the books describe the series as follows: The books are illustrated with black-and-white line art, with color drawings on the dust jacket. The historical consultants were typically college professors or, in the case of war-related stories, retired military officers among the more noteworthy consultants for the series were the historians Bruce Catton, Walter Prescott Webb and A. Each book's byline also lists a separate "historical consultant", who was a specialist in the historic topic covered by that particular book.
The books were written by a number of different authors, each writing from one to seven of the books the authors included Benjamin Appel, Jim Kjelgaard, Earl Schenck Miers, William O. Each book in the series is a fictional retelling of an historical event, featuring one or more children as primary characters. The series consists of 36 titles, first released between 19 by Grosset & Dunlap. The We Were There books are a series of historical novels written for children. Cover of We Were There on the Chisholm Trail, the 14th book in the series.
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