great lives

• The Life Story of Orison Swett Marden
• Stories from Life: A Book for Young People
• Lives of Poor Boys (Cornell, Cooper)

music/art

• Lives of Poor Boys (Cole)

Literature/poetry

history

• In My Youth
• MASB: Westward Expansion

Art Credit: Westward the Course of Empires Takes Its Way by Emanuel Leutze (wikimedia commons)