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Treasury of detailed, ready-to-color illustrations depicting typical scenes from 50 United States national parks: Grand Canyon, Everglades, Great Smoky Mountains, Mammoth Cave, Petrified Forest and 45 more. Informative captions describe distinguishing features of each park, flora and fauna, visitor activities available, more. Useful guide to major attractions of these splendid preserves. 50 black-and-white illustrations. 4 in color on covers.
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.
Thirty-nine carefully researched, excellently rendered
illustrations depict ancient burial platforms, the funeral of a
Choctaw chief, Natchez warriors of 1758, Seminole women preparing a
meal, Chickasaw warriors serving the Confederacy (1862), a modern
Mikawuki Seminole alligator wrestler and more.
Carefully researched, finely rendered scenes depict over 4
centuries of tribal life, including views of Pequot and
Massachusett hunters in the early 1600s, Ottawa warriors of the
17th and 19th centuries, an Iroquois woman pounding corn (1910),
Mohawk construction workers (1970), and more. 41 illustrations with
fact-filled captions.
Detailed, accurate renderings of 44 historic forts and citadels, among them Fort McHenry, Fort Jamestown, Fort Ticonderoga, Fort Sumter, Plymouth Fort, El Morro in Puerto Rico, Fort Niagara, Fort Laramie, and many others, including four Canadian sites. Fact-filled captions accompany illustrations, making this book a source of coloring fun, a useful reference, and a practical tour guide.
38 illustrations of Seminoles, Mohawk, Iroquois, Crow, Cherokee, Huron, other tribes engaged in hunting, dancing, cooking, other activities.
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