What did kids do for fun in the early 1800s? How did their parents treat them? Was school back then the way it is today? Visit young Ulysses Grant in frontier Ohio... and step into his shoes.

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E-Book
Read an electronic version of Grant's famous Personal Memoirs, a 19th-century bestseller.