The original etext for this book was prepared by Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team for Project Gutenberg. The text was edited and formatting was added by Lisa Ripperton, using as copytext, Heroes Every Child Should Know, edited by H. W. Mabie, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1908.

Since this book was first published before 1923, it is in the public domain in the United States. By U.S. law, it entered the public domain 75 years after its first publication.

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