ISBN: 9780553050783

Description: 210 pages, 3 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 32 cm

Contents:

• Extending horizons
• Discovering America
• Founding a colony
• The pioneers
• The long hunters
• The Maine islands
• The forest
• The Smokies and the Blue Ridge
• The outer banks
• The bayous
• Westward the wagons
• The Mississippi
• Indians
• The Big Bend
• Ghost towns --The Wind River Range
• Hideouts
• In the Nevada mountains
• The San Juans and the La Platas
• A place for eagles
• The old ones
• Come back country
• Prospecting
• To walk a desert mile
• The Pacific coast
• The eternal frontier.

LCCN: 84045178

Control Number: 2765746

Subjects:

• Frontier and pioneer life -- United States.
• United States -- History, Local.