A fascinating book, revealing, in 364 pages, the extraordinary push westward by pioneers who traveled mile after mile across the plains, then mountains and eventually reached the Pacific. The story is spelled out with hundreds of images, either photos, drawings, paintings, maps and several spread-wide color graphics of, for example, a cut-away of a steamboat, a covered wagon, panning for gold, or a sodbuster's family home.
A clever editorial feature of the book is that each spread covers an individual subject rather than a continuous narrative throughout the book. The reader can dip into these pages with a mixture of bite-size text mixed together with relevant images (which all have captions).
To give you an idea of how comprehensive the book is the eight pages of the Index have around 2240 entries.
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