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By James I Robertson,Mort Künstler

ISBN-10: 0789212609

ISBN-13: 9780789212603

Künstler’s work convey background to existence with extraordinary portrayals of the occasions of America’s Wild West, beginning in 1804, while Lewis and Clark made their first expeditions, to 1890, while the yankee frontier used to be declared “vanished.” The epic works of art faithfully catch the tremendous landscapes, explorations, and battles of this crucial interval, and ask teenagers to seem repeatedly for particular information, comparable to the feathers in an American Indian chief’s headdress to the kind of horse a cattleman rides. including textual content via award-winning historian James I. Robertson, Jr., those brilliantly particular work have interaction a tender reader’s realization and introduce her or him to American historical past throughout the visible arts.

Lauded by way of either historians and curators, Künstler offers fantastically rendered works chronicling America’s enlargement to the West in a traditionally exact and beautiful method— transporting the reader correct into every one scene.

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