Mad and magnificent Yankees: a New England portrait gallery

Native genius. Timothy Dexter - Lord of Newburyport, Earl of Chester, and merchant extraordinary / Ian Nicholas Ephraim Bull - He sowed, others reaped / John Mason The Bonesetter Sweets - A strange and wonderful inheritance / Martha R. McPartland Marian MacDowell - Maker of memories / Carl Carmer John Taber - His integrity made money / Sheldon Christian

Crusaders. Prudence Crandall - Way ahead of her time / Martha R. Wright William Phelps Eno - Ex Chao, Ordo / David K. Witheford Dorothea Lynde Dix - A mountain of determination / William S. Ellis Henry Danial Cogswell - Ice water and time capsules / Emil Corwin Hilda Hamlin - A lupine legacy / W. Storrs Lee

Fabulous feats and towers of strength. Elmer Bitgood - Move over, Paul Bunyan / Richard L. Champlin Hessie Donahue - The lady who knocked out John L. Sullivan / Richard W. O'Donnell Alfred Johnson - First American to sail across the Atlantic alone / Robert S. Malcolm George Gibson Polley - Daredevil original "Human Fly" / Richard W. O'Donnell John Krohn - A big wheel around America / William Edward Mason James Connolly - A hop, step, and a jump to the first modern olympic championship / Tom Edwards

Favored by the Muses. Phillis Wheatley - Boston's slave poet / Robert E. O'Toole Russell Risley - Faces on a Vermont barn / Tennie G. Toussaint The Saturday Club - The purest intellectual quintessence / Richard F. Merrifield Lillian Norton - Splendiferous prima donna from Maine / Moreton Abbott Zerah Colburn - Boy computer and mathematical genius / Don Munson Amy Lowell - Poet, Boston / Laurie Hillyer

Dreams that came to naught. Charles Francis Hall - A lonely grave at Thank God Bay / T. W. Paterson William Miller - The man who drove a million people crazy / M. Robert Beasley Jonathan Lambert - Ill-fated king of the isle of refreshment / Vincent J. Dowdell, Jr. Frances B. Hiller - Funerals fit for pharaohs / Joun Mason Richard Jordan Gatling - He dreamed of peace and improved his gun / Jean Mitchell Boyd Charles Corliss - The city that never was / Richard W. O'Donnell

Empire builders. Frederic Tudor - Ice-cool ice king / W. A. Swanberg Lydia E. Pinkham - A remedy founded on true unicorn / Patrice Smart James Fisk, Jr. - Rapscallion from Vermont / W. A. Swanberg Fannie Merritt Farmer - Little, Brown was doubtful / Gladys N. Hoover George Francis Train - Space age victorian / Dawn Anderson

New England granite. Rebecca and Abigail Bates - Victorious army of two / Alton Hall Blackington The Vermont version - / Leon W. Dean George Bloomer - The world's greatest single rescue feat / Edward Rowe Snow The Mercer girls - Around Cape Horn to find a husband / Harold Helfer Warren B. Johnson - A yankee who went home... the hard way / Laura Page Captain Scullum - Russia paid up / Albert P. Hout Mildred Jewett - One-woman coast guard station / Harriet Crowley

Legends in their own time. Robert Rogers - Wado Madahondo, the White Devil / Simon Cameron

John Wilson - Alias Captain Thunderbolt / W. A. Swanberg

Napoleon LaJoie - New Engand's greatest baseball player / John U. Ayotte

Harry Nelson Pillsbury - Chess tyro who beat the masters / Bartlett Gould

Danial Webster - Lighning from his eyes, thunder from his mouth / Eric Kelly

Charles Sherwood Stratton - P. T. Barnum's gold mine / Mandie M. Dabrowski.