Another writer, James Cloyd Bowman, wrote an award-winning children's book called "Pecos Bill: The Greatest Cowboy of All Time."

VOA: special.2009.11.28

So,Republican Congressman William McKinley of Ohio proposed a new tariff bill -- one that would raise import taxes higher than ever before.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

The purpose of the Kansas-Nebraska bill reportedly was to settle differences among opposing railroad interests in the area.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

And lawmakers in Rhode Island are considering a bill that would require state schools to offer the choice of a three-year degree.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

Former Presidents Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and George W.Bush all received treatment for skin cancer or pre-cancerous lesions.

VOA: special.2010.07.06

This week in our series, Rich Kleinfeldt and Shirley Griffith tell more about the long disputed issue of slavery and the Kansas-Missouri bill.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

Saturday night, the House of Representatives passed a bill with an estimated trillion-dollar price over ten years.

VOA: special.2009.11.13

In two thousand, then-President Bill Clinton told the world that international and private groups had identified the genetic structure of a human being.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

When the Senate began debate on the Kansas-Nebraska bill, Stephen Douglas was the first to defend it.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

The stories were collected in a book called "The Saga of Pecos Bill" published in nineteen twenty-three.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

Finally,in nineteen fifty-eight, Congress passed the Alaska Statehood Bill and President Dwight Eisenhower signed it into law.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

The new Kansas-Nebraska bill, he said, simply recognized the fact that the Missouri compromise was dead.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

On Thursday, President Obama condemned an anti-homosexuality bill in Uganda that proposes death for some crimes.

VOA: special.2010.02.06

The Confederate Congress passed a bill in March of eighteen sixty-five to accept Negroes as soldiers.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

I vote for more freedom." The bill aims to provide health coverage to thirty-six million Americans.

VOA: special.2009.11.13