History of the Indians, of North and South America

Samuel Griswold Goodrich (1793–1860) was an American author, better known by his pseudonym, Peter Parley. Throughout his career, Goodrich devoted himself to the cause of education and produced a copious body of work geared toward young readers. His use of the fictional but engaging character Peter Parley to narrate tales of history, geography, and science was a formula that found great success in ...