Little Visits With Great Americans

Little Visits With Great Americans was a publication founded by William Dudley Pelley which consisted of a series of short biographies on early Americans and explores of the Americas. The issues ran from 1937 to 1941.

Pelley’s inspiration for the series was based upon his literary idol Elbert Hubbard’s Little Visits.

Series

1937

• Little Visits with Great Americans: Ferdinand Magellan (1937)
• Little Visits with Great Americans: Francisco Coronado (1937)
• Little Visits with Great Americans: Hernando Cortez (1937)
• Little Visits with Great Americans: John Cabot (1937)
• Little Visits with Great Americans: Samuel De Champlain (1937)

1938

• Little Visits with Great Americans: Captain John Smith (Volume II, No. 1 in series, 1938)
• Little Visits with Great Americans: Roger Williams (Vol. II, No. 7 in series, 1938)
• Little Visits with Great Americans: John Eliot (Vol. II, No. 8 in series, 1938)
• Little Visits with Great Americans: James Oglethorpe (Vol. II, No. 9 in series, 1938)
• Little Visits with Great Americans: Jean Bienville (1938)
• Little Visits with Great Americans: William Bradford (April 1, 1938) cover
• Little Visits with Great Americans: Bright Trails (the thirteen explorers of America, September 20, 1938)
• Little Visits with Great Americans: John Carver (February 1, 1938) cover
• Little Visits with Great Americans: Henry Hudson (1938)
• Little Visits with Great Americans: Robert La Salle (1938)
• Little Visits with Great Americans: Jacques Marquette (1938)
• Little Visits with Great Americans: Miles Standish (1938)
• Little Visits with Great Americans: Peter Stuyvesant (June 1, 1938) cover

1939

• Little Visits with Great Americans: The Lords Baltimore (1939)
• Little Visits with Great Americans: Cabin Smoke (1939)
• Little Visits with Great Americans: John Cotton (1939)
• Little Visits with Great Americans: Benjamin Franklin (1939)
• Little Visits with Great Americans: Louis Hennepin (1939)
• Little Visits with Great Americans: Cotton Mather (1939)
• Little Visits with Great Americans: William Penn (1939)
• Little Visits with Great Americans: (Jacques) Pere Marquette (Volume II, No. 10 in series, 1939)

1941

• Little Visits with Great Americans: Ethan Allen (Vol. III, No. 10 in series) (1941)
• Little Visits with Great Americans: James Otis (Vol. III, No. 8 in series, 1941)
• Little Visits with Great Americans: George Rogers Clark (Vol. III, No. 9 in series, 1941)
• Little Visits with Great Americans: Daniel Boone (1941)
• Little Visits with Great Americans: Thomas Paine (September 1941) cover
• Little Visits with Great Americans: Major Robert Rogers (1941)
• Little Visits with Great Americans: Peter Schuyler (1941)