37 detailed illustrations, informative captions.

Packed with details of frontier life, this book features 118 illustrations of dramatic historical events - building the railroad, crossing the prairie, battling outlaws - as well as explorers, bandits, lawmen and other real-life characters from an adventurous era.

Forty carefully researched, accurately rendered line drawings -- ready to be colored -- depict the traditional costume and culture of the Plains Indians, including the Apache, Pawnee, Crow, Blackfoot, Cree, and many others as they actually existed from the mid-17th through the early 20th centuries. Full captions. Introduction. 4 illustrations in color on covers.

Accurately rendered, well-researched illustrations of 21 Spanish missions built between 1769 and 1823 along the California coast, among them San Diego de Alcalá, San Juan Capistrano, Santa Clara de Asás, Santa Barbara Virgen Y Martir, San José de Guadalupe, Santa Cruz, many more. Includes realistic vignettes recreating various aspects of mission life. Descriptive captions.