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Excerpt from Hero Tales From American History Nearly thirty years have passed since this volume was published. A long time, these twenty-eight years, in the average human life, although only a moment in the life of a nation. A long time, too, in the life of a book of this kind, despite the fact that this particular book still is fortunate enough to have, as from its day of publication, a steady sale, indicating at least that it has some quality, some real worth, which appeals to the American public. The story of the book itself is both short and simple. The suggestion of the book, as the dedication explains, came from Mrs. Roosevelt, and in consequence of that suggestion the "Hero Tales from American History" were selected and written by the two authors in 1894 and the early part of 1895, before Roosevelt left Washington and the Civil Service Commission to take, on May 7, 1895, the oath of office as Police Commissioner in the city of New York. This explains the absence of any letters relating to the book, because, living as we both did at that time in Washington, we met constantly and planned and prepared the "Tales," and talked over everything connected with them from day to day. We first selected the men and the incidents to be the subjects of the twenty-six stories, of which Roosevelt contributed fourteen and I twelve. The work of selection was by no means easy and involved much thought and care. All the "Tales" were of course historical, as the title declares. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.